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Ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (may God be pleased with him) and of Asma bint Abi Bakr (may God be pleased with her). The people of Mecca and Iraq gave him their allegiance as caliph; he went through the strife of al-Harra and the rebuilding of the Ka'ba. 1
The siege of Mecca
His speech after the killing of Mus'ab
When his brother Mus'ab was killed, he went up to the pulpit and said that the news had grieved him and gladdened him at once, and that his family do not die in their beds but by spears and under the shade of swords. 1
This page follows al-Mas'udi's "Meadows of Gold"; other details need an additional source.
Connections
- Participated in
- Uthman's standardization of the mushaf
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 1659· Muwatta 1719· Muwatta 2126
People and things also explored
Divorce (talaq)· Muwatta, Book of Divorce (talaq)· The shahada· Bukhari 4987 — Uthman's standard copies· Muwatta, Book of Judgements (aqdiya)· Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham· Abdullah ibn Abbas· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 104-105
- Muhammad Qabbani, The Umayyad State from Birth to Fall (Damascus: Dar Wahy al-Qalam, 2006)
- Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition)
- Lectures on the History of the Islamic Peoples: The Umayyad State — al-Khudari
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
- Sahih al-Bukhari
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islam.museum contributors. “'Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abdullah-ibn-al-zubayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.