Ibn Abī al-Dunyā reports in his book The Caliphs: “They crucified Ibn al-Zubayr upside-down. He was of wheat-colored complexion, slender, not tall, with the mark of prostration between his eyes. He had dispatched his governors throughout the entire East and the Ḥijāz.”

Juwayriyyah ibn Asmāʾ relates from his grandmother:
“Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr washed the body of Ibn al-Zubayr after his limbs had been severed. Permission came from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān after al-Ḥajjāj had refused her request, so she embalmed him, shrouded him, performed the funeral prayer over him, and placed something on his body when she saw it disintegrating at the touch.”

Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh said: “His mother carried him and buried him in Madinah, in the house of Ṣafiyyah, Mother of the Believers. Later that house of Ṣafiyyah was annexed to the Mosque, so he is buried with the Prophet (1) ﷺ—that is, near him.”

Ibn Isḥāq and several others said: “He was killed in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 73 AH.”

Ḍamrah and Abū Nuʿaym were mistaken, claiming that he was killed in 72 AH.

He lived a little over seventy years—may Allah be pleased with him.

His mother died two months, or thereabouts, after him, at nearly one hundred years of age. She was the last of the earliest Muhājirāt to pass away—may Allah be pleased with her—and she was called “the Lady of the Two Girdles.” She was several years older than ʿĀʾishah.