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Negotiations with Ibn al-Zubayr failed, prompting Hajjaj to request reinforcements from Abd al-Malik and ask permission to attack Mecca. [21] Abd al-Malik granted permission and ordered Tariq ibn Amr, who held Medina, to reinforce Hajjaj at Mecca. [22] Hajjaj besieged Mecca on 25 March 692 and reinforcements under Tariq ibn Amar arrived a month ...
In 691, Abd al-Malik managed to bring Zufar al-Kilabi's Qays back into the Umayyad fold, and advanced into the Iraq. Mus'ab was defeated and killed, and Umayyad authority re-established across the East. After another siege of Mecca which lasted from March–October 692, Ibn al-Zubayr was killed, and the civil war ended. [20] [23] [24]
The Ka'aba in Mecca (pictured in 1917) was the headquarters of Ibn al-Zubayr where he was besieged and defeated by Abd al-Malik's forces led by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in 692 With threats in Syria and the Jazira neutralized, Abd al-Malik was free to focus on the reconquest of Iraq.
Abd al-Wahid ibn Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: عبد الواحد بن سليمان بن عبد الملك, romanized: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; fl. 720 – c. 750) was an Umayyad prince and the governor of Mecca and Medina in 747–748 during the reign of Caliph Marwan II (r.
Battle of 'Ayn al-Warda. 686: Al-Mukhtar declares himself as the caliph at Kufa. 687: Battle of Kufa between the forces of Mukhtar and Abd Allah ibn Zubayr. Mukhtar killed. 691: Battle of Maskin. Kufa falls to Abd al-Malik. 692: October – The fall of Mecca. Death of ibn Zubayr. Abdul Malik becomes the sole caliph.
His father was the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik (r. 685–705). His mother, A'isha, was a daughter of Hisham ibn Isma'il of the Banu Makhzum, a prominent family of the Quraysh, and Abd al-Malik's longtime governor of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The armies of Abd al-Malik and Mus'ab met at Dayr al-Jathaliq in the middle of October. [6] [30] Ibn al-Ashtar and his men charged against Muhammad's vanguard, forcing them to withdraw. [30] Abd al-Malik then ordered Abdallah and his right wing to enter the battlefield, where together with Muhammad's troops they closed in on Mus'ab's men. [30]
After asserting Umayyad authority in Iraq, Abd al-Malik dispatched one of his commanders, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, to subdue Ibn al-Zubayr. [10] Al-Hajjaj besieged and bombarded Mecca for six months, by which point, most of Ibn al-Zubayr's partisans and his sons Khubayb and Hamza surrendered upon offers of pardons.