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Abd Allah Ibn Al Zubayr

Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn az-Zubayr ( 623 - 692 ) ( Arabic : ).

He was a member of the tribe of Bani Asad , and clan Quraysh and Banu 'Abd al'Uzza , son of Asma , the daughter of Abu Bakr companion of Muhammad , as the first elected head of the confederation Medina after the death of the Holy prophet (according to the official historiography), and sister Aisha , the youngest wife of Muhammad (same source).

Firstborn of emigrants ( muhadjirun ), whichever was transmitted to us of his propaganda, he was born the second year of the Hegira in the camp of Medina , and was therefore faced with the battle of Badr , indirectly. At the age of 12, he accompanied his father Zubayr ibn al-Awwam in the great battle of Yarmouk , which saw the collapse of the Roman legions to regain control of Syria after the defeat against Persia's Arab allies.

It would be up against Uthman ibn Affan in seizing power with the help of the clan of the descendants of Abu Sufyan , the historic leaders of Mecca and had joined his father and aunt in a short rebellion before going into the wall Opposition oral, and finally, after the Battle of the Camel , about 32 years, to join with Aisha herself sufyanide clan and its leader after the assassination of Uthman , at the age of 34.

The revolt of Abd Allah ibn az-Zubayr

Abd Allah ibn az-Zubayr did not appear to have any political activity during the reign of the Umayyad clan lord Arab people of Quraish Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan , but the accession to power of his son Yazid , he refused to swear allegiance.

After the battle of Karbala and the death of Husayn he returned to the Hijaz where he proclaimed himself Commander of the Faithful. He began to strengthen its position and it appointed a governor to Kufa. Soon he extended his influence in Yemen and even some Arab schools in Syria and Fustat in Egypt. He enjoyed wide support from Arab who claimed their own identity and whose tribes accepted the suzerainty Syrian marginalized by welding large confederations ( Qais ) and in parallel, the Arab "emigrants" of Iraq who wanted to maintain their privileges of non-pension registered. Yazid tried to invade the Hijaz , but his sudden death put an end to this campaign, leaving the Umayyad clan civil war.

Arab settlements of Sham ( Homs and Damascus ) proclaimed when Marwan ibn al-Hakam as commander of the faithful in 683 the following year, his son Abd al-Malik succeeded him and began the conquest of Iraq.

The civil war had settled, she was named by the name of Islamic historiography second fitna. Zubayr lost the support and Egyptian Abdelaziz ibn Marwan took control of the camp of Fustat and tribal allies were either crushed or returned to Syria.

These events combined with the revolt of kharidjites in Iraq. Zubayr is finally kept the control of the Hijaz to 688. Eventually Abd Al-Malik , sent his vassal Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf as governor of Iraq, its anti-repression aliide, anti-Hashemite and anti-zubayride remained as a symbol of the cruelty of the state against Shiites.

He then conquered the Hijaz and Mecca would have bombed at the catapult , and damaging a wall of the Kaaba. In Syria, on the rock of Jerusalem, Abd Al-Malik was building the Dome of the Rock.

Zubayr Hajjaj defeated and killed him, beheaded him and his crucified corpse ( 692 ), the Marwanids orientrent when propaganda about a "rebellion" zubayride, and the famous collector of hadith (awards, sermons, then interpreted more as words and deeds of Muhammad), his brother, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr , rallied immediately to the Umayyad and helped to justify its legislative business by Hashemite ancestry, Arabic and Koranic-prophto.