Muḥammad from the caliphate on his behalf. At daybreak they clashed with Marwān. Al-Khaybarī, leading four hundred of his bravest men, charged straight at Marwān, who was stationed in the centre. Marwān wheeled about in retreat, and they pursued him until they drove him out of the ranks, then burst into his camp, where al-Khaybarī seated himself upon the caliph’s own carpets. All the while Marwān’s right wing held firm under the command of his son ʿAbd Allāh, and the left likewise stood fast under Isḥāq ibn Muslim al-ʿAqīlī. When ʿAbd Allāh saw the troops fleeing with al-Khaybarī, while both the right and the left of their own line (1) remained intact, they seized the chance: advancing upon him with the poles of the tents, they beat him to death. Word of his killing reached Marwān, who by then had ridden some five or six miles from the field; delighted, he turned back. The followers of al-Ḍaḥḥāk broke and fled, having set Shaybān over themselves. Marwān then pursued them to a place called al-Karādīs (2) and routed them.

That same year Marwān al-Ḥimār appointed Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra as governor of Iraq, charging him to combat the Kharijites there.

In this year the pilgrimage was led on behalf of the people by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who was acting as deputy over Medina, Mecca, and al-Ṭāʾif. The governor of Iraq was Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra, and the governor of Khurasan was Naṣr ibn Sayyār.

Among those who died this year were:
Bakr ibn Sawādah;
Jābir al-Juʿfī;
Jahm ibn Ṣafwān, executed as mentioned above;
al-Ḥārith ibn Surayj, one of the eminent commanders—part of his biography has already been noted;
ʿĀṣim ibn Bahdala;
Abū Ḥaṣīn ʿUthmān ibn ʿĀṣim;
Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb;
Abū al-Tayyāḥ Yazīd ibn Ḥumayd; and
Abū Jamrah al-Ḍabʿī (3).