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Subsequent tradition will remember Muslim ibn 'Uqba …
Years: 683 - 683
September
Subsequent tradition will remember Muslim ibn 'Uqba as the "heathen incarnate" (J. Wellhausen) for his sack of Medina.
He had set out for Mecca after taking Medina but had fallen ill on the way and died at Mushallal; command had passed to his lieutenant Husayn ibn Numayr al-Sakuni.
Husayn's army arrives before Mecca in September.
Ibn al-Zubayr and his supporters refuse to surrender, and after they are defeated in a first engagement, a siege of the city begins, in which the Umayyad army employs catapults to bombard it with stones.
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Years: 683 - 683
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