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When people of [[Medina]] heard about the departure of Yazid's army to Medina, they dug a trench around Medina as a shelter. | When people of [[Medina]] heard about the departure of Yazid's army to Medina, they dug a trench around Medina as a shelter. | ||
People allowed the agents of the Umayyad government to go out of Medina on the condition that they give no information about Medina to the Syrian army and do not attend the war. After they went out of Medina, the Umayyad people broke their oath, and [['Abd al-Malik b. Marwan]]'s father suggested he devise a plan for an attack on Medina together with Muslim b. 'Uqba.Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 206. | People allowed the agents of the Umayyad government to go out of Medina on the condition that they give no information about Medina to the Syrian army and do not attend the war. After they went out of Medina, the Umayyad people broke their oath, and [['Abd al-Malik b. Marwan]]'s father suggested he devise a plan for an attack on Medina together with Muslim b. 'Uqba. <ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 206.</ref> | ||
After crossing Harra, Muslim b. 'Uqba settled in the east of Medina and gave a three-day deadline to people of Medina.<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 178-180; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 485-487.</ref> Then he bypassed the trench and entered the city with the help of the Banu Haritha tribe—who were deceived by financial promises<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 179, 181, 265.</ref>—and committed incredible crimes there in such a way that he came to be known as the criminal.<ref>Ibn Ḥabīb, ''al-Munammaq fī akhbār Quraysh'', p. 390; Masʿūdī, ''Murūj al-dhahab'', vol. 3, p. 267.</ref> | After crossing Harra, Muslim b. 'Uqba settled in the east of Medina and gave a three-day deadline to people of Medina.<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 178-180; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 485-487.</ref> Then he bypassed the trench and entered the city with the help of the Banu Haritha tribe—who were deceived by financial promises<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Imāma wa l-sīyāsa'', vol. 1, p. 179, 181, 265.</ref>—and committed incredible crimes there in such a way that he came to be known as the criminal.<ref>Ibn Ḥabīb, ''al-Munammaq fī akhbār Quraysh'', p. 390; Masʿūdī, ''Murūj al-dhahab'', vol. 3, p. 267.</ref> | ||