Abdullah bin Zubayr

Abd Allah ibn az-Zubayr
Native name	Abdullah ibn az- Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ibn Khuwailid ibn Asad
Born	January, 622 Medina, Arabia
Died	November, 692 Mecca
Cause of death	In battle
Known for	Aisha bint Abu Bakr's nephew, Caliph
Opponent(s)	Yazid I Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
Parent(s)	Zubayr ibn al-Awwam Asma bint Abi Bakr

`Abd Allah al-Zubayr or ibn Zubayr (Arabic: عبد الله بن الزبير‎ ‘Abdallāh ibn az-Zubayr; 624–692) was an Arab sahabi whose father was Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, and whose mother was Asma bint Abi Bakr, daughter of the first Caliph Abu Bakr. He was the nephew of Aisha, the third wife of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr was the first Muslim to be born in Medina after the hijrah.

Starting from 683, al-Zubayr contested the title of caliph and rebelled against the ruling Umayyad Caliphate for nearly a decade. Ibn Zubayr was defeated and killed in Mecca in 692 AD after a six-month siege by the general Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf.

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr was a member of the Bani Hashim tribe and was born one year and 8 months after the hijra of Muhammad to Medina. As such, he was the first Muslim child born in Medina. He was the cousin of Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr who, in turn, was the grandfather of Jafar al-Sadiq.

He was born of mutah.

According to leading scholars such as al-Raghib al-Isphahani, Abu Dawood al-Tayalisi, and Qadhi Sanaullah Panipati, he is perhaps the most important and famous personality born to a temporary marriage (Nikah mut'ah) between Zubayr al-Awaam and Asma bint Abi Bakr.

Ibn 'Abbas said about him: "his (maternal) grandfather, Abu Bakr was (the Prophet's) companion in the cave, his mother, Asma' was 'Dhatun-Nitaq', his aunt, 'Aisha was the mother of the Believers, his paternal aunt, Khadija was the wife of the Prophet , and the paternal aunt of the Prophet was his grandmother. He himself is pious and chaste in Islam, well versed in the Knowledge of the Quran".

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