and treated him with great respect. Muṣʿab then dispatched al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah to govern Mosul, the Jazīrah, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, and when he had first left Basra he had appointed ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Maʿmar (1) as his deputy there while he himself remained in Kūfa. Before the year had drawn to a close, however, his brother ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr removed him from the governorship of Basra and installed his own son, Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, in his place. Ḥamzah was brave, open-handed, and rather unpredictable (2): at times he would give so lavishly that nothing remained, while at other times he withheld things no one else would think of withholding. Light-mindedness, recklessness, and haste became evident in his decisions, so al-Aḥnaf wrote to ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, who dismissed Ḥamzah and reinstated Muṣʿab over Basra in addition to his post in Kūfa.

They report that Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr departed Basra with a large sum from its treasury. Mālik ibn Mismāʿ intercepted him and said, “We will not let you leave with our stipends.” ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Maʿmar (3) guaranteed payment of the stipends, so Mālik let him pass. Instead of proceeding to his father in Mecca, Ḥamzah turned toward Madinah, where he placed the money with several men—every one of them embezzled and denied what he had entrusted to them, save for one man from among the People of the Book, who returned the sum intact.

When his father heard of what had happened he said, “May Allah banish him far away! I wanted to boast of him before the sons of Marwān, but he let me down.”

Abū Mikhnaf relates that Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr governed Basra for a full year—Allah knows best.

Ibn Jarīr (4) says: In that same year ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr led the pilgrimage. His governor over Kūfa was his brother Muṣʿab, over Basra his son Ḥamzah—though some say his brother had already returned to that post—and over Khurasan and the surrounding regions ʿAbd Allah ibn Khāzim al-Sulamī served on behalf of Ibn al-Zubayr. Allah, exalted is He, knows best.

Among the notable deaths that year were:
• al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abī Muʿayṭ (5).
• Abū al-Jahm (6), the owner of the anbijāniyyah cloak mentioned in the authentic hadith (7).