Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar Yazid da babban ɗansa kuma magajinsa, Mu'awiya II, a cikin 683 da 684, mulkin Umayyad ya rushe a cikin Khalifanci. Yawancin larduna da gundumomin soja na Siriya, lardin babban birnin Umayyad, sun amince da Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr na Makka a matsayin halifa. Banu Kalb, tsoffin ƙabilan ƙabilan Sufyanids (layin Umayyads sun fito ne daga mahaifin Yazid, wanda ya kafa Khalifancin Umayyad Mu'awiya I) wanda a ƙarƙashinsa suke da matsayi na musamman a kotun khalifa, sun tattara ƙabilu masu aminci na Umayyad a Siriya don nada wanda zai maye gurbin Mu'awiya II. A cikin zargin da aka yi a Damascus tsakanin magoya baya da abokan adawar Umayyawa, gwamnan Dahhak ibn Qays al-Fihri, wanda ya goyi bayan Ibn al-Zubayr, ya kama dan uwan Yazid Walid ibn Utba ibn Abi Sufyan, amma Abd Allah, dan uwansa Khalid da masu goyon bayan Kalbite sun sake shi. Shugaban Kalb, Ibn Bahdal, dan uwan Yazid ne, kuma ya zabi Khalid da Abd Allah a matsayin 'yan takarar sa na mukamin khalifa. Sauran 'yan kabilar masu aminci sun yi adawa da shi saboda shekarun Khalid da Abd Allah. Maimakon haka, an nada wani dangi mai nisa na Umayyad, Marwan ibn al-Hakam, kuma ya jagoranci kokarin yakin Umayyad kan kabilun da ke goyon bayan Zubayrid a Siriya, inda ya kayar da shugaban su Dahhak a yakin Marj Rahit.
a cikin 684.