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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.
Oct 28, 2024 · 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.
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.
Key words: ‘Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Zubayrids, Islam, caliphate, Umayyad, civil war. ‘Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr was the first child born among the Muslim emigrants of Medina (Muhajirun) in the second year of Hidjra (about twenty months after Hidjra: Sha’ban 2/February 624)1.
Abd Allah al-Zubayr or Ibn Zubayr or Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr' (624 - 692) was a sahabi (Companion of the Prophet) whose father was Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, and whose mother was Asma bint Abi Bakr, daughter of the first Caliph Abu Bakr. He was the nephew of Aisha, one of the wives of Muhammad.
`ABD ALLAH IBN AZ-ZUBAIR: (53) `ABD ALLAH IBN AZ-ZUBAIR. What a Man! What a Martyr! A blessed child in his mother's womb was he, when his mother passed over the burning desert sand leaving Makkah for Al-Madiinah on her emigrationroute.
'Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr ruled over Hijaz and the Eastern provinces from Mecca for nine years. The people of Iraq, Hijaz, and a large part of Syria paid him homage as caliph. After his death in 692 A.D., the caliphate of 'Abd al-Malik b. Marwan was confirmed.
