; and Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī (1), Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī (2), and Abū Qabīl al-Maʿāfarī (3); their biographies are recorded in “al-Takmīl.”

[Then the year 129 AH began]

In that year the Kharijites, after the death of al-Khaybarī, rallied around Shaybān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥulays al-Yashkurī, himself a Kharijite. Sulaymān ibn Hishām advised them to fortify themselves in Mosul and make it their base. They therefore moved into the city, and Marwān ibn Muḥammad, the Commander of the Faithful, pursued them. The rebels camped outside its walls and dug a trench on the side facing Marwān’s forces, while Marwān likewise had a trench dug opposite theirs. For a full year he kept them under siege, with fighting breaking out every morning and evening.

During this siege Marwān captured a nephew of Sulaymān ibn Hishām—Umayyah ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Hishām—after some of the caliph’s troops seized him. Marwān ordered that his hands be cut off and then that he be beheaded, all while his uncle Sulaymān and the army looked on.

Marwān next wrote to his governor in Iraq, Yazīd ibn ʿUmar ibn Hubayra, instructing him to combat the Kharijites in his province. Several engagements followed, and Ibn Hubayra gained the upper hand, annihilating their main body so that no remnant of them remained in Iraq. He also wrested Kūfa from the Kharijites—at that time it was held by al-Muthannā ibn ʿImrān al-ʿĀʾidhī of ʿĀʾidhah Quraysh—during Ramaḍān of that same year.

When Ibn Hubayra had finished with the Kharijites, Marwān wrote requesting that he reinforce him with ʿĀmir ibn Ḍubārah (4), a renowned warrior. Ibn Hubayra dispatched him with seven or eight thousand men.

The Kharijites, in turn, sent a force of four thousand to intercept him on the road, but Ibn Ḍubārah routed them, killing their commander al-Jawn ibn Kilāb al-Shaybānī, the Kharijite. He then advanced toward Mosul, while the shattered remnants of the Kharijites retreated to their comrades.

Sulaymān ibn Hishām advised them to abandon Mosul, for they could no longer remain: Marwān barred their way ahead, Ibn Ḍubārah pressed them from the rear, and their supplies had been cut off so that they had nothing left to eat. They therefore departed, taking the route through Ḥulwān toward Ahwāz.

Marwān sent Ibn Ḍubārah after them with three thousand men. He pursued them relentlessly, killing any stragglers, engaging them whenever he caught up, and did not desist until he had scattered them completely. Their commander Shaybān ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Yashkurī perished in Ahwāz the following year, killed by Khālid ibn Masʿūd ibn Jaʿfar ibn Khalīd al-Azdī.

As for Sulaymān ibn Hishām, he and his retainers and household boarded ships and sailed to Sind.