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Translator's Foreword Between Civil Wars: The Caliphate of, Mu'awiyah The Events of the Year 40 (660/661) The Rendering of Allegiance to al-Hasan b. Ali The Events of the Year 41 (665/662) Al-Hasan's surrender of al-Kufah to Mucawiyah The departure of al-Hasan and al-Husayn for al-Madinah The Kharijites at Shahrazur Mucawiyah's order to kill the sons of Ziyad Whyc Abdallah b.c Amir was put in charge of al-Basrah and some events during his Activity there The Events of the Year 42 (662/663) What happened to the Kharijites The Events of the Year 43 (663/664) The killing of al-Mustawrid b.c Ullifah The Events of the Year 44 (664/665) The Events of the Year 45 (665/666) Ziyad's governorship over al-Basrah The Events of the Year 46 (666/667) The death ofc Abd al-Rahman b. Khalid b. al-Walid The Events of the Year 47 (667/668) The Events of the Year 48 (668/669) The Events of the Year 49 (669/670) The Events of the Year 50 (670/671) Al-Faradzaq's flight from Ziyad Al-Hakam b.c Amr raids al-Ashall The Events of the Year 51 (671/672) Hujr b.c Adi's execution Those whom Ziyad sent to Mucawiyah Hujr's companions who were killed Hujr's companions who were saved The Events of the Year 52 (672) The Events of the Year 53 (672/673) How Ziyad b. Sumayyah perished How al-Rabic b. Ziyad al-Harithi died The Events of the Year 54 (673/674) Why Mucawiyah dismissed Sacid and appointed Mawan as governor over al-Madinah Howc Ubaydallah b. Ziyad became governor over Khurasan The Events of the Year 55 (/674/675) Why Mucawiyah dismissedc Abdallah b.c Amr b. Ghaylan and appointedc Ubaydallah over al-Basrah The Events of the Year 56 (675/676) Why Mucawiyah made his Son, Yazid, heir apparent The Events of the Year 57 (676/677) The Events of the Year 58 (677/678) Whyc Ubaydallah b. Ziyad killed the Kharijites The Events of the Year 59 (678/679) Why Mucawiyah appointedc Abd al-Rahman b. Ziyad as governor of Khurasan How Mucawiyah dismissed and re-appointedc Ubaydallah as governor of al-Basrah Why Yasid b. Mufarrigh ridiculed the sons of Ziyad The Events of the Year 60 (679/680) The length of Mucawiyah's reign Mucawiyah's last illness Who led the prayer over Mucawiyah when he died Mucawiyah's lineage and his Agnomen Mucawiyah's wives and children Some of Mucawiyah's Affairs and Conduct Bibliography Index