The war involved Cause_to_be_included the suppression of two challenges to the Umayyad dynasty , the first by Husayn ibn Ali , as well as his supporters including Sulayman ibn Surad and Mukhtar al-Thaqafi who rallied for his revenge in Iraq , and the second by Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr .

A series of pro-Alid movements demanding revenge for Husayn 's death emerged Coming_to_be in Kufa beginning with Sulayman 's Penitents movement , which was crushed by the Umayyads at the Battle of Ayn al-Warda in January 685 .