In this year, the oath of allegiance as caliph was given to Mu‘wiyah b. Yazid b Mu‘awiyah b. Abi Sufyan in Syria, and to ‘Abdallah b. al-Zubayr in the Hijaz. When Yazid b Mu‘awiyah died, al-Husayn b. Numayr and the Syrians continued fighting against Ibn al-Zubayr and his companions in Mecca—according to Hisham‘s report from ‘Awanah—for forty days. The Syrians had strenuously besieged Ibn al-Zubayr and his men and blockaded them. Then news of Yazid‘s death reached Ibn al-Zubayr and his companions, but not al-Husayn b. Numayr and his.