Sayyiduna Urwah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from his father (Sayyiduna al-Zubayr, may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of the Battle of the Camel, Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) called his son Abdullah and, giving him his final instructions, said: "O my dear son! Today is a day on which either a wrongdoer or a wronged one will be killed. By Allah! If I am killed, I will be killed only as one who has been wronged. By Allah! I did not do this (wrong) nor did I do that. O my son! Take care of my debt, for there is nothing that concerns me more than my debt, and it is one million two hundred thousand (dirhams)."

It is narrated from Ibn Shihab that on the day of the Battle of the Camel, Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) turned his back and departed (withdrawing from the battlefield). Then a man from Banu Tamim, Ibn Jurmuz, caught up with him and martyred him.

Sa'id bin Abd al-Aziz al-Sulami narrates from his father that he said: When Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) turned back on the day of the Battle of the Camel, he was reciting these (verses): "I have come to know, if only my knowledge had benefited me, that life is very close to death." Then only a short while had passed when Ibn Jurmuz martyred him.