After the death of his eldest half-brother,Al-Harith, Al-Zubayr was next in line. With his brother Abu Talib, he took responsibility for the family obligation to provide food and drink for the pilgrims.[citation needed] He also shared joint guardianship of the young Muhammad. It is said that he took Muhammad on a journey to Yemen 584 CE.[6]
A tradition that Ibn Kathir calls "weak" states that he died 585.[7] This is contradicted by several traditions that indicate that he was still alive many years later.
Al-Zubayr was the founder of theorder of chivalry known as theHilf al-Fudul. This was a movement formed in Mecca in May 591 (soon after the end of theSacrilegious War) for the suppression of violence and injustice.[8][9] He is supposed to have said about the pact:
I swore, "Let’s make a pact against them, though we're all members of one tribe. We'll call ital-Fudul; if we make a pact by it, the stranger could overcome those under local protection, and those who go around theKaaba will know that we reject injustice and will prevent all things shameful ...Al-Fudul made a pact and alliance that no evildoer shall dwell in Mecca's heart. This was a matter they firmly agreed; and so the protected neighbour and the unprotected stranger are safe among them."[10]
Al-Zubayr was among the many Quraysh who participated in the rebuilding of the Kaaba in 605. At first they were afraid to commence, for a large snake took up residence in the sanctuary. One day an eagle carried off the snake, leaving the builders free to work. Al-Zubayr, very impressed by this, composed a poem describing how "down came the eagle, deadly straight in its swoop; it bore it away ..."[11]
^Abdulmalik ibn Hisham.Notes to Ibn Ishaq's Life of Muhammad. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955).The Life of Muhammad, p. 707, note 97. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^"Duba'a bint Az-Zubair".Welcome to Muslim Scholars Database from Arees (in Arabic). 2010-04-16. Retrieved2022-10-01.
^Muhammad ibn Saad.Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, vol. 8. Translated by Bewley, A. (1995).The Women of Madina, pp. 34-35. London: Ta-Ha Publishers.
^See also Muhammad ibn Ishaq.Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955).The Life of Muhammad, p. 522. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^"Abdullah bin Az-Zubair".Welcome to Muslim Scholars Database from Arees (in Arabic). 2010-04-16. Retrieved2022-10-01.
^Ismail ibn Umar ibn Kathir.Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya. Translated by Le Gassick, T. (1998).The Life of the Prophet Muhammad, vol. 1, p. 166. Reading, U.K.: Garnet Publishing.
^Muhammad ibn Saad.Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, vol. 1. Translated by Haq, S. M. (1967).Ibn Sa'ad's Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Volume I, Parts I & II, p. 144. Delhi: Kitab Bhavan.
