Al-Waqidī said: Rabiʿah ibn ʿUthmān, Ibn Abī Sabrah, and others narrated to us, saying:

When news of Yazīd’s death reached Medina in Rabīʿ al-Ākhir of the year 64 AH, Ibn al-Zubayr rose, called people to pledge allegiance to him, and they did so.

He invited Ibn ʿAbbās and Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah to give him their bayʿah, but they refused, saying, “Only after the people have all united under you.”

For two full years he dealt with them gently; then he spoke to them harshly and summoned them again, yet they still declined (1).

Muʿṣab ibn ʿAbd Allah and others said: Ibn al-Zubayr was nicknamed “The One Who Seeks Refuge in Allah’s House” (2).

Ibn Saʿd related: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar reported from his aunt Umm Bakr, who said:

Shuraḥbīl ibn Abī ʿAwn also narrated to me from his father, and Ibn Abī al-Zinād and others likewise transmitted:

When Ibn al-Zubayr came to Medina during the caliphate of Muʿāwiyah … until they said:

Ibn al-Zubayr then set out for Mecca, took up residence in the Ḥijr, put on a maʿāfirī cloak, and began inciting the people against the Umayyads. He approached Yaḥyā ibn Ḥakīm al-Jumaḥī, the governor of Mecca, and pledged allegiance to Yazīd through him, but Yazīd was not satisfied until Ibn al-Zubayr was brought before him in a collar and shackles.

Yazīd’s son, Muʿāwiyah ibn Yazīd, said to him, “Ward off harm from yourself while you can, for Ibn al-Zubayr is obstinate and will never comply in this matter. Expiate your oath.”

Yazīd grew angry and exclaimed, “Your view is truly astonishing!”

Muʿāwiyah replied, “Then summon ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar and ask him about what I have said.”

So he was called in, and he told Yazīd, “Your son Abū Laylā has spoken correctly.”

Yazīd nevertheless refused to accept this, and Ibn al-Zubayr would not abase himself, saying, “O Allah, I seek refuge in Your House,” whereupon he was called “the One Seeking Refuge in the House.”

No one then laid a hand on him. Yazīd wrote to ʿAmr al-Ashdaq, the governor of Medina, ordering him to dispatch troops against Ibn al-Zubayr. ʿAmr therefore enlisted his brother ʿAmr ibn al-Zubayr at the head of a thousand men, but after combat Ibn al-Zubayr overcame his brother and punished him. He then delayed