stood an azaj⦗1⦘. He then ordered a man to pull it down upon him; the man complied, and it killed him. He had grown weary of life because of the fearful threats leveled at him and the terrifying dreams he kept seeing.

Ibn Qutaybah said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUtbah narrated to us; Abū Usāmah narrated from Hishām, from his father:
Al-Zubayr left in merchandise fifty million dirhams, and in ready cash another fifty million dirhams⦗2⦘. Such is the wording of this report.

Ibn ʿUyaynah related, from Hishām, from his father: Al-Zubayr’s estate was divided on the basis of forty million⦗3⦘.

Abū Usāmah reported to me from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Ibn al-Zubayr, who said:
When al-Zubayr took his stand on the Day of the Camel, he summoned me. I came and stood beside him, and he said:
‘My son! No one will be killed today except either an aggressor or a victim, and I see myself today being slain as one wronged. What weighs on me most is my debt—do you think that, once it is paid, anything of our property will remain?
My son! Sell what we possess and settle my debts. I bequeath one third, and a third of that third, to ʿAbd Allah. If, after the debts are cleared, anything of our wealth is left, then a third of it belongs to your children⦗4⦘.’

Hishām added: Some of ʿAbd Allah’s children were the contemporaries of some of al-Zubayr’s sons—Khubaib and ʿAbbād—and on that day he had nine daughters.

ʿAbd Allah said: He kept charging me with the responsibility for his debt, saying, ‘My son! If you find yourself unable to manage any part of it, seek the assistance of my mawla.’
By Allah, I did not know whom he meant