Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations Translator's Foreword The Events of the Year 66 (cont'd) (685/686) [Al-Mukhtar Acts against the Slayers of al-Husayn] Why He Seized Them; Names of Those He Killed and of Those Who Fled and Eluded His Grasp [The Kufan Ashraf Rise against al-Mukhtar] [Al-Mukhtar Acts against the Murderers of al-Hysayn] [The Swearing of Allegiance to al-Mukhtar in al-Basrah] [Al-Mukhtar Sends an Army to Trick Ibn al-Zubayr] Al-Mukhtar's Motive in Sending This Army; What Befell Them [The Khashabiyyah Perform the Pilgrimage] Why the Khashabiyyah Came to Mecca [The Siege of the Banu Tamim in Khurasan] [Those in Office during the Year] [Ibrahim b. al-Ashtar Goes to Fight 'Ubaydallah b. Ziyad] An Explanation of the Chair Whereby al-Mukhtar and His Companions Prayed for Assistance The Events of the Year 67 (686/687) The Death of 'Ubaydallah b. Ziyad [Mus'ab b. al-Zubayr Becomes Governor of al-Basrah] [Mus'ab Marched against Him, An Account of al-Mukhtar's Death] Ibn al-Zubayr Removes Mus'ab from al-Basrah] [Those in Office during the Year] The Events of the Year 68 (687/688) [The Azariqah Return from Fars to Iraq] An Account of Them, Their Departure, and Their Return to Iraq [Events in Syria] [The Death of 'Ubaydallah b. al-Hurr] His Death; the Circumstances That Brought It upon Him [Four Separate Banners at the Pilgrimmage] [Those in Office during the Year] The Events of the Year 69 (688/689) [The Revolt and Death of 'Amir b. Sa'id in Damascus] [A Kharijite Killed at the Pilgrimage] [Those in Office during the Year] The Events of the Year 70 (689/690) ['Abd al-Malik and the Byzantines] [Mus'ab b. al-Zubayr Visits Mecca] [Those in Office during the Year] The Events of the Year 71 (690/691) [Khalid b. 'Abdallah Raises Support for 'Abd al-Malik in al-Basrah] ['Abd al-Malik Attacks Mus'ab; the Death of Mus'ab] ['Abd al-Malik Enters al-Kufah] [Khalid b. 'Abdallah Becomes Governor of al-Basrah] [Ibn al-Zubayr's Governors during This Year] [The Pilgrimage] [Ibn al-Zubayr's Sermon after the Death of Mus'ab] ['Abd al-Malik's Banquet at al-Khawarnaq] The Events of the Year 72 (691/692) ['Abd al-Malik and the Kharijites] ['Abd al-Malik Sends al-Hajjaj to Fight Ibn al-Zubayr] ['Abd al-Malik and 'Abdallah b. Khazim] [Those in Office during the Year] A Chapter in Which We Mention the Secretaries since the Beginning of Islam The Events of the Year 73 (692/693) A Description of [the Death of Ibn al-Zubayr] ['Abd al-Malik and the Kharijites] [Bishr b. Marwan Becomes Governor of al-Basrah] [Campaigns against the Byzantines] Those in Office during the Year] Bibliography of Cited Works Index