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      • Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (Arabic: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ٱبْن الزُّبَيْرِ ٱبْن الْعَوَّامِ, romanized:ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām; May 624 – October/November 692) was the leader of a caliphate based in Mecca that rivaled the Umayyads from 683 until his death.
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  2. Asma bint Abi Bakr. Religion. Islam. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (Arabic: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ٱبْن الزُّبَيْرِ ٱبْن الْعَوَّامِ, romanized:ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām; May 624 – October/November 692) was the leader of a caliphate based in Mecca that rivaled the Umayyads from 683 ...

  3. ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr (born May 624, Medina, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died November 692, Mecca) was a leader of a rebellion against the Umayyad dynasty in the early Islamic period and the most prominent representative of the second generation of Muslim families in Mecca, who resented the Umayyad assumption of caliphal authority.

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  4. His full name was Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Shaiba. His father became a successful merchant and was involved in trade. Due to his upright character, Muhammad acquired the nickname "al-Amin" (Arabic: الامين), meaning "faithful, trustworthy" and "al-Sadiq" meaning "truthful" [4] and was sought out as an impartial arbitrator. [5]

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    Regarded as responsible for the second civil war in Islam and a participant in the first, al-Zubayr's legacy has its detractors and supporters. Umayyad writers depict him as a heretic who defiled the Sacred Sanctuary and divided the Ummah. He is said to have lost support because of his own tendency towards miserliness and losing his temper. Followi...

    Aslan, Reza. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. New York, NY: Random House, 2005. ISBN 978-1400062133.
    Fowden, Garth. Quṣayr ʻAmra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria. The transformation of the classical heritage, 36. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0520236653.
    Kennedy, Hugh. The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. Warfare and history. London, UK: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 978-0415250924.
    Khālid, Khālid Muḥammad. Men Around the Messenger. Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Book Trust, 2005. ISBN 978-9839154733.
  5. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr b. al-ʿAwwām (Arabic: عبدالله بن الزبير بن العوّام), known as Ibn al-Zubayr (b. 1 /623 – d. 73 /692), one of the people who claimed the caliphate after the death of Mu'awiya and has established his reign over Mecca.

  6. Although there was some kind of disagreement between `Abd Allah Ibn Az-Zubair and Ibn `Abbaas, the latter described `Abd Allah in the following words: "Hewas a reciter of the Qur'aan, a follower of the Sunnah, submissive to Allah,a God-fearing faster, son of the Prophet's disciple.

  7. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (Arabic: عبد الله بن مسعود, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd; c. 594 – c. 653) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad whom Islamic tradition regards the greatest interpreter of the Quran of his time and the second ever. [1][2] He was also known by the kuniya Abu Abd al-Rahman. [3]: 289.