Volume 6, Book 60, Number 187:
Narrated Ibn Abi Mulaika:
There was a disagreement between them (i.e. Ibn ‘Abbas and Ibn Az-Zubair) so I went to Ibn ‘Ab –
bas in the morning and said (to him), “Do you want to fight against Ibn Zubair and thus make lawful
what Allah has made unlawful (i.e. fighting in Meccas?” Ibn ‘Abbas said, “Allah forbid! Allah or –
dained that Ibn Zubair and Bani Umaiya would permit (fighting in Mecca), but by Allah, I will never
regard it as permissible.” Ibn Abbas added. “The people asked me to take the oath of allegiance to Ibn
AzZubair. I said, ‘He is really entitled to assume authority for his father, Az-Zubair was the helper of
the Prophet, his (maternal) grandfather, Abu Bakr was (the Prophet’s) companion in the cave, his
mother, Asma’ was ‘Dhatun-Nitaq’, his aunt, ‘Aisha was the mother of the Believers, his paternal
aunt, Khadija was the wife of the Prophet , and the paternal aunt of the Prophet was his grandmoth –
er. He himself is pious and chaste in Islam, well versed in the Knowledge of the Quran. By Allah!
(Really, I left my relatives, Bani Umaiya for his sake though) they are my close relatives, and if they
should be my rulers, they are equally apt to be so and are descended from a noble family.