Siege of Makkah
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al-Sakuni attacked Makkah. The fugitive Medinities and the Kharijites had come round Ibn al-Zubayr. The Makkans were confident that the Syrian soldiers would not go so far as to sack Makkah itself and were therefore not fully on their guard. But the city was besieged and Ibn al-Zubayr at the head of ill prepared Makkhans went out to give fight. He was driven back with heavy losses. The siege continued for two months. The city was bombarded, the Ka’bah itself caught fire and the sacred Black Stone broke into three pieces on 3rd Rabi’ al-Awwal 64A.H., (31 Oct.
683A.D.) but yet the siege dragged on to the 27th November of 683. Ibn Zubayr was offered the throne of Damascus by the Syrians fighting at Makkah but he preferred to live at Makkah and engaged himself in rebuilding the Ka’bah. Subsequent to the death of Yazid, the authority of Ibn Zubayr was accepted in al-Hijaz, South Arabia. Iraq. Egypt and parts of Syria the very homeland of the Umayyads themselves.
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