Urwa ibn al-Zubayr

Urwa ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, son of al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ¹.

al-Baladhuri, citing al-Waqidi through a chain, reports that Urwa said he had stayed in Egypt seven years and married there. He saw its people exhausted, with burdens laid on them beyond their strength. He said that Amr had conquered it only by agreement, by a covenant and by a fixed tribute imposed on them ¹.

al-Salabi reports that his leg was amputated from the middle of the shin on his journey to al-Walid, after an ulcer had appeared on it. He reports that his son Muhammad was killed by the beasts on that journey, and that he died in the year 93 AH ².

• Passages have not yet been extracted from the third recorded source (The Umayyad State, 2006). The entry needs an additional source.