When Yazid bin Muawiyah passed away, Dahhak bin Qais wrote a letter to Qais bin Haitham, the contents of which were as follows: Peace be upon you. As for what follows! I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: Before the Day of Judgment, there will be severe and terrifying tribulations like pieces of a dark night, and some tribulations will be like pieces of smoke. Then people's hearts will die just as bodies die. A man will begin the morning as a believer and end the evening as a disbeliever, and a man will be a believer in the evening and a disbeliever in the morning, and people will begin to sell their religion and morals for the sake of the world. Yazid bin Muawiyah has passed away, and you are our brother. Do not precede us in any matter until we ourselves have chosen something for ourselves.

It is narrated from Bishr bin Harb that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) went to Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) and said to him: I have been informed that before the people agreed upon the leadership of one leader, you pledged allegiance to two leaders? He said: Yes, I had pledged allegiance at the hand of Sayyiduna Ibn Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), then the Syrians came and took me towards the army of Ibn Dillah, so I pledged allegiance to him as well. Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I feared this, I was afraid of this. While uttering these words, Hammad bin Salamah prolonged and stretched his voice. Abu Sa'id said: O Abu Abdur Rahman! Did you not hear that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that if any of you has the ability that he should neither begin the morning nor the evening without being under the leadership of an amir, then he must enter into the leadership of someone? He said: Yes, but I do not like that before the people agree upon the leadership of one leader, I pledge allegiance to two leaders.

It is narrated from Abu Imran, he says: I said to Jundub: I have pledged allegiance to those people, that is, to Sayyiduna Ibn Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), now these people want me to go with them towards Syria. He said: Do not go. I said: They are insisting on taking me with them. He said: Free yourself by giving wealth. I said: Their only insistence is that I participate with them in fighting. Jundub said: So-and-so narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: On the Day of Resurrection, a murdered person will bring his killer along and say: O my Lord! Ask him why he killed me? Shu’bah’s wording is: He will say, for what reason did he kill me? He will say: I killed him to save so-and-so’s government. So Jundub said: Thus, you should save yourself.

It is narrated from Sayyida Asma bint Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with her) that she became pregnant with Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) in Mecca. She says: My term was complete when I set out on the journey of migration. I stayed at Quba and gave birth to the child there. I took him to the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and placed him in his lap. The Prophet asked for dates, chewed them, and put them in the child’s mouth. The very first thing to enter his stomach was the saliva of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). In this way, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him the tahneek of dates and prayed for blessings for him. He was the first child to be born in Islam.

It is narrated from Sayyida Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), she says: I brought (my nephew) Ibn Zubair to the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him a chewed date and said: This is Abdullah and you are Umm Abdullah.

Urwah narrates that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Ja'far (may Allah be pleased with him): Do you remember that day when we came before the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he made me ride on his mount and left you? It was the blessed habit of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that when he returned from a journey, he would be welcomed by the children.

It is narrated from Amr bin Ghalib, he says: I, Sayyiduna Ammar, and Ashtar went to the service of Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her). Sayyiduna Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Mother! Peace be upon you. Sayyidah replied: "Peace be upon him who follows guidance." Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him) repeated these words of greeting two or three times, then said: By Allah! You are my mother, even if you dislike me. Sayyidah said: Who are those with you? He said: This is Ashtar. Sayyidah said: Are you not the one who intended to kill my nephew? He said: Yes! Indeed, I intended that, and he also intended to kill me. Sayyidah said: If you had done this, you would not have succeeded. And Ammar! Did you not hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say that the blood of a Muslim is not lawful except in three cases: if a married person commits adultery, or he becomes an apostate, or he kills someone and is killed in retaliation? (So did Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) commit any of these crimes that he was killed?)

. (Second chain) It is narrated from ‘Urwah bin Ghalib that Sayyidah ‘A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said to Ashtar: Are you the one who intended to kill my nephew? He said: Yes, I was eager to kill him and he wanted to kill me. She said: Do you not know that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It is not permissible in any case to shed the blood of a Muslim except if he becomes an apostate, or commits adultery while being married, or unjustly kills a Muslim.

It is narrated from Aswad, he says: Sayyiduna Ibn Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: Tell me those things which Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) used to tell you privately and which she used to hide from the people. Aswad said: She told me one thing, the beginning of which I remember well. She said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Aisha! If your people had not recently embraced Islam, I would have demolished the structure of the Ka'bah and rebuilt it, and I would have made two doors at its level, one for entering and the other for exiting. Abu Ishaq says: I have seen the House of Allah built in this manner.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), who says: My aunt, Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), related to me that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: If your people had not only recently abandoned polytheism or ignorance, that is, disbelief, I would have demolished the Ka'bah and leveled it with the ground, and I would have made two doors for it in such a way that one would be towards the east and the other towards the west, and I would have included a space of six cubits from the Hijr, that is, Hatim, into the House of Allah, because when the Quraysh rebuilt it, due to lack of resources, they could not include that part in the construction of the Ka'bah.