Yazid 's army assaulted Attack anti-government rebels in Medina in August 683 and subsequently besieged Besieging Mecca , where Ibn al-Zubayr had established Creating himself in opposition to Yazid .

Under the leadership of Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan , the Umayyads reasserted Recovering control over the caliphate after defeating the Zubayrids at the Battle of Maskin in Iraq and killing Ibn al-Zubayr in the Siege of Mecca in 692 .

The flooding came Motion just two days before the expected date of the Eid al-Adha festival and during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to nearby Mecca .