Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (3/374)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

I say: Yazid next mustered an army of six thousand men when word reached him that the people of Medina had deposed him. This led to the Battle of al-Ḥarra, in which about one thousand Medinans were killed. The army then advanced under the command of Ḥusayn ibn Numayr; they besieged the Kaʿbah, inside which Ibn al-Zubayr had taken his stand. Momentous events followed, and Allah removed Yazid from power. Ḥusayn and his troops thereupon swore allegiance to Ibn al-Zubayr as caliph and returned to Syria.

Shabbāb said: Ibn al-Zubayr attended the pilgrimage season in the year 72 AH; he performed the Hajj with the people, while al-Ḥajjāj led the Syrians—and they did not circumambulate the House. (1)

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah said: Ibn al-Zubayr was the first to clothe the Kaʿbah in silk brocade. He would perfume it so generously that its fragrance could be detected at the far edge of the Sacred Precinct, whereas before him its covering had been rawhide. (2)

ʿAbd Allah ibn Shuʿayb al-Ḥajabī said: When the caliph al-Mahdī stripped the Kaʿbah of its coverings, among the pieces he removed was the brocade placed there by Ibn al-Zubayr, on which was embroidered: “For ʿAbd Allah Abū Bakr, Commander of the Believers.”

Al-Aʿmash reported from Abū al-Ḍuḥā: “I saw on Ibn al-Zubayr’s head a quantity of musk worth a fortune.” (3)

I say: Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) was faulted for miserliness. Al-Thawrī narrated from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī Bashīr, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Musāwir, that he heard Ibn ʿAbbās reproaching Ibn—

(1) Tarikh Khalifa, p. 269. (2) The author himself cites the report in his Tarikh, vol. 3, p. 172: al-Darawardi narrates it from Hisham b. Urwa; Abd al-Razzaq (no. 9087) also records it—omitting the phrase “and he used to perfume it”—through the isnad of Ibrahim b. Muhammad b. Abi Yahya al-Aslami from Hisham b. Urwa. Ibrahim is classed as matruk (abandoned). Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Zubala, who is likewise weak, corroborates him; al-Zubayr b. Bakkar transmits the report from the latter. (3) Tahdhib of Ibn Asakir, 7/414, and Tarikh al-Islam, 3/172; both state: “I saw on the head of Ibn al-Zubayr so much musk that, had it been mine, it would have been a capital asset.”

قُلْتُ: ثُمَّ جَهَّزَ يَزِيْدُ جَيْشاً سِتَّةَ آلاَفٍ، إِذْ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ أَهْلَ المَدِيْنَةِ خَلَعُوْهُ، فَجَرَتْ وَقْعَةُ الحَرَّةِ، وَقُتِلَ نَحْوُ أَلْفٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ المَدِيْنَةِ، ثُمَّ سَارَ الجَيْشُ، عَلَيْهِم حُصَيْنُ بنُ نُمَيْرٍ، فَحَاصَرُوا الكَعْبَةَ، وَبِهَا ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، وَجَرَتْ أُمُوْرٌ عَظِيمَةٌ، فَقَلَعَ اللهُ يَزِيْدَ، وَبَايَعَ حُصَيْنٌ وَعَسْكَرُهُ ابْنَ الزُّبَيْرِ بِالخِلاَفَةِ، وَرَجَعُوا إِلَى الشَّامِ. قَالَ شَبَابٌ: حَضَرَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ المَوْسِمَ سَنَةَ ثِنْتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِيْنَ، فَحَجَّ بِالنَّاسِ، وَحَجَّ بِأَهْلِ الشَّامِ الحَجَّاجُ، وَلَمْ يَطَّوَّفُوا بِالبَيْتِ (١) . قَالَ هِشَامُ بنُ عُرْوَةَ: أَوَّلُ مَنْ كَسَا الكَعْبَةَ الدِّيبَاجَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ، وَكَانَ يُطَيِّبُهَا حَتَّى يُوجَدَ رِيْحُهَا مِنْ طَرَفِ الحَرَمِ، وَكَانَتْ كِسْوَتُهَا قَبْلَهُ الأَنْطَاعَ (٢) . قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ شُعَيْبٍ الحَجَبِيُّ: إِنَّ المَهْدِيَّ لَمَّا جَرَّدَ الكَعْبَةَ، كَانَ فِيمَا نَزَعَ عَنْهَا كِسْوَةَ ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ مِنْ دِيبَاجٍ مَكْتُوبٍ عَلَيْهَا: لِعَبْدِ اللهِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ أَمِيْرِ المُؤْمِنِيْنَ. وَقَالَ الأَعْمَشُ: عَنْ أَبِي الضُّحَى: رَأَيتُ عَلَى رَأْسِ ابْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ مِسْكاً يُسَاوِي مَالاً (٣) . قُلْتُ: عِيْبَ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ ﵁ بِشُحٍّ، فَرَوَى: الثَّوْرِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ المَلِكِ بنِ أَبِي بَشِيْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ مُسَاوِرٍ: سَمِعَ ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ يُعَاتِبُ ابْنَ

(١) " تاريخ خليفة ": ٢٦٩. (٢) ذكره المصنف في " تاريخه " ٣ / ١٧٢، فقال: وروى الدراوردي عن هشام بن عروة، وأخرجه عبد الرزاق (٩٠٨٧) دون قوله: وكان يطيبها..من طريق إبراهيم بن محمد ابن أبي يحيى الاسلمي، عن هشام بن عروة، وإبراهيم متروك، وتابعه محمد بن الحسن بن زبالة، وهو ضعيف أخرجه الزبير بن بكار عنه. (٣) " تهذيب ابن عساكر " ٧ / ٤١٤، و" تاريخ الإسلام " ٣ / ١٧٢، ولفظه فيهما: رأيت على رأس ابن الزبير من المسك، ما لو كان لي، كان رأس مال.