Tabari has quoted 'Amr Ibn Sa'id as saying...

Tabari has quoted 'Amr Ibn Sa'id as saying, “Both Mecca and Medina incline towards Ibn Zubayr.”[^15] The insurgents besieged the Umayya together with their followers and governors being as many as one thousand assembled in Marwan Ibn Hakam's house and then expelled them disdainfully while children were hurling stones.[^16] They bet that if the expelled swore not to return along with the Damascus army, they would be allowed to leave the city.

They assented although atrocious individuals like Marwan[^17] breached their promise. As this expulsion is introduced by Waqidi to be done by Ibn Zubayr, he has added that the total number of those expelled from Mecca, Medina and other areas had been some four thousand people.[^18] In accordance with Ibn A'tham the insurgents were led by 'Abd Allah Ibn Hanzala Ghasil al-Mala'ika at Ibn Zubayr's behest, the governor of Medina.[^19] Wearied of his political strategies for…