Al-Munzir campaigned against Constantinople alongside Yazid ibn Muʿawiyah. He later visited Muʿawiyah, who granted him one hundred thousand and allotted him an estate, but Muʿawiyah died before the money could be disbursed.
Together with ʿUthman ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Hakim ibn Hizam, al-Munzir ibn al-Zubayr would fight the Syrians by day and feed them by night. (1)
Al-Munzir was killed in Mecca during its siege, along with his brother. When Muʿawiyah died he had stipulated that al-Munzir be the one to descend into his grave.
Musʿab ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAwf (2) was a pious and exemplary young man. He, too, was killed in the siege of Mecca alongside Ibn al-Zubayr. (3)
In that same year—64 AH—many wars and widespread disturbances broke out in the eastern provinces. A man named ʿAbd Allah ibn Hazim seized control of Khurasan, overpowered its governors and expelled them. This occurred after the deaths of Yazid and his son Muʿawiyah, before Ibn al-Zubayr’s authority had been firmly established in those regions. Lengthy battles then took place between this ʿAbd Allah ibn Hazim and ʿAmr ibn Marthad; detailing them would be interminable and of little benefit, for they were episodes of civil strife in which rebels fought one another. Allah is the One whose help is sought.
[Al-Waqidi said: In this same year, after the death of Muʿawiyah ibn Yazid, the people of Khurasan pledged allegiance to Salm ibn Ziyad ibn Abihi and loved him so much that, in that very year, they named more than one thousand newborn boys after him. They later broke their pledge and fell into discord, so Salm departed from them and left al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufrah in charge.] (4)
That year also saw the Shiʿa notables assemble around Sulayman ibn Surad in Kufah. They agreed to meet at al-Nukhaylah to avenge al-Husayn ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, and ever since al-Husayn’s martyrdom at Karbala on the tenth of Muharram in 61 AH they had pursued this cause with earnest resolve, regretting that they had summoned him only to abandon and forsake him when he arrived.