by Allah, I shall go on proclaiming during the pilgrimage season for four consecutive years: “Whoever is owed anything by al-Zubayr, let him come to us so that we may pay him.”
So each year he made that announcement at the season, and when four years had passed he distributed the estate among them.
Al-Zubayr had four wives. He withheld one-third, and each wife received one million, one hundred thousand. Altogether, his property amounted to fifty million (1) and two hundred thousand (2).
In the Musnad of Baki ibn Makhlad there are thirty-eight hadiths narrated from al-Zubayr; two of them are found in the two Sahihs, and al-Bukhari alone relates seven.
Hisham reported from his father:
“The share of ʿAtika bint Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl, the wife of al-Zubayr, from his inheritance reached eighty thousand dirhams.”
She composed this elegy for him:
Ibn Jurmuz betrayed the knight of the thickest fray
on the day of encounter—he had never turned away.
O ʿAmr, had you alerted him, you would have found him
steady—no trembling fingers, no unsteady hand.
May your mother mourn you! Never have you mastered one like him
through all the days and nights you come and go.
How many a peril he plunged into, undeterred by your pursuit,
O son of Faqʿ al-Fadfad!
By Allah, your Lord, if you killed a Muslim deliberately,
upon you falls the penalty of the intentional killer. (3)