the conquest of Egypt; he then commanded the troops there on behalf of Muʿāwiyah and Yazīd, and he died in Dhū al-Qaʿdah of this very year.

Nawfal ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Dīlī ⦗1⦘ ⦗2⦘: a noble Companion. He fought at Badr, Uḥud, and the Trench on the side of the idolaters, inflicting heavy losses upon the Muslims. Later he embraced Islam and his faith proved sound. He was present at the conquest of Mecca and at Ḥunayn, performed the Hajj with Abū Bakr in the year nine, and witnessed the Farewell Pilgrimage. Al-Wāqidī said, “He lived sixty years in the pre-Islamic era and the same span in Islam, and he lived on into the days of Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah.” Ibn al-Jawzī said, “He died in this year.”

In this same year there also died:

al-Rabāb bint Anīf ⦗3⦘, the wife of Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī. She was with the people of Iraq when they were rushing—on a Saturday, or perhaps on a Friday—against her husband Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, the grandson of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

[Then came the year 63 AH]

In that year occurred the Battle of al-Ḥarrah. Its cause was that when the people of Medina deposed Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah, they appointed over Quraysh ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mutīʿ and over the Anṣār ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī ʿĀmir. At the very beginning of the year they declared this openly and gathered by the pulpit. One of them would say, “I have cast off Yazīd just as I cast off this turban of mine,” and would throw it from his head; another would say, “I have cast him off as I cast off this sandal of mine,” until a great heap of turbans and sandals had accumulated there. They then agreed to expel Yazīd’s governor from among them—he was ʿUthmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Sufyān, a cousin of Yazīd—and to drive out the Umayyads.