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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Battle of Harrah Open Confrontation of the People of Medina against Umayyid Government Confiscation of the state property by the people of Medina and the fruitless and unfriendly negotiations of the representatives of Medinan tribes with Uthmān b. Abū Sufyān was the beginning of Muhājirin and Ansār 's open confrontation with the Umayyid rule.

This action of the people of Medina actually opened up the deep and old wound inflicted on their bodies by the Umayyid rule long time ago. The atmosphere was quite ready for a serious action against the Umayyid government. 'Abd Allāh b.

Hanzala Ghasīl al-Malā'ka, who had witnessed at close quarters Yazīd's irresponsibility and incompetence in Syria and even had accepted his gifts with the intention of using them in toppling his own rule, called people of Medina to the final battle against Yazīd and the Umayyids. 'Abd Allāh b.

Hanzala's social status[^1] among the people of Medina made them to go along with him and even choose him as the governor of Medina, swear allegiance to him, and regarded Yazid as discharged from the Caliphate.[^2]49 Ibn Zubayr, who was himself one of the protesters and had chosen Mecca as his base, sent a letter to the people of Medina encouraging them to stand up against Yazīd and Umayyid's administrators settled in Medina and expel them from Medina.[^3]50 Ibn Zubayr himself ousted Yazīd's administrators from Hijāz.[^4]51 Expulsion of the Governor of Medina After swearing allegiance to 'Abd Allāh b.

Hanzala on the first day of Muharram 63 A.H. (682, C.E.), the people of Medina expelled Uthmān b. Muhammad b. Abū Sufyān, Yazīd's representative and the governor of Medina, from that city. Then, they imprisoned the Umayyids, their relatives, as well as those Qurayshīs who were the supporters of the Umayyid government, amounting to one thousand persons in Marwān b.

Hakam's house without doing them any harm.[^5]52 Some historians, in the meantime, have put it this way: Those imprisoned in Marwān's house were besieged, water was denied to them, and some of them were assaulted and battered including 'Uthmān b. Muhammad and Marwān b. Hakam and his son Abd al-Malik.[^6] However, such remarks have not been reported in the first hand sources.

After the revolt of Medinans and besiege of Umayyids in Marwān's house, the governor of Medina sent his torn up shirt to Yazīd along with a letter saying: “Come to our rescue!