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Al-Husayn ibn Numayr, a Syrian commander whom Musrif ibn Uqba appointed over the army of the people of Syria when he died at Qudayd. 2
The siege of Mecca
Al-Mas'udi relates that he marched to Mecca and surrounded it, and set up catapults and mangonels on it and on the Sacred Mosque from the mountains and the passes. The Ka'ba was destroyed and its building burned on the third of Rabi al-Awwal 64 AH, eleven days before the death of Yazid. 2
The list of sources on this page also includes a book on the Umayyad state, but the data do not say what was taken from it. This needs an additional source.
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 69
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.69
- The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
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islam.museum contributors. “al-Husayn ibn Numayr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-husayn-ibn-numayr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.