Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ibn al-Zubayr daga baya ya ayyana kansa halifa kuma Iraki da Masar sun kasance a ƙarƙashin mulkinsa. A Siriya, dan Yazid Mu'awiya II, wanda ya zaba, ya zama khalifa. Ikonsa ya iyakance ga sassan Siriya kamar yadda yawancin gundumomin Siriya (Hims, Qinnasrin, da Falasdinu) ke ƙarƙashin ikon abokan haɗin Ibn al-Zubayr. Mu'awiya II ya mutu bayan 'yan watanni daga cutar da ba a san ta ba. Yawancin kafofin farko sun bayyana cewa ya yi watsi da mulki kafin mutuwarsa. Bayan mutuwarsa, iyayen Kalbites na mahaifiyar Yazid, suna neman ci gaba da samun gata, sun nemi shigar da ɗan Yazid Khalid a kan karagar mulki, amma waɗanda ba Kalbites ba a cikin haɗin gwiwar Umayyad sun ɗauka cewa ya yi ƙuruciya sosai don wannan mukamin. Sakamakon haka, an yarda da Marwan ibn al-Hakam a matsayin halifa a cikin daya daga cikin kabilun da ke goyon bayan Umayyad a watan Yunin 684. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, Marwan da Kalb sun kori sojojin da ke goyon bayan Zubayrid a Siriya wanda Dahhak ya jagoranci a yakin Marj Rahit.
Ka yi haƙuri. Kodayake masu goyon bayan Umayyad sun bayyana cewa Khalid zai gaji Marwan, amma Marwan ya zabi dansa Abd al-Malik a matsayin magajinsa. Don haka gidan Sufyanid, wanda aka sa wa suna bayan mahaifin Mu'awiya I Abu Sufyan, an maye gurbinsa da gidan Marwanid na daular Umayyad. A shekara ta 692 Abd al-Malik ya ci Ibn al-Zubayr kuma ya maido da ikon Umayyad a fadin Khalifanci.