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However tarikh al tabari says otherwise, in an authentic narration we read :

According to Ahmad b. Zuhayr-his father-Wahb b. Jarīr b. Hazim-his father-Yūnus b. Yazid al-Ayli-al-Zuhri:

They went down -Talhah and al-Zubayr-to Mecca four months af- ter the killing of 'Uthman.

Ibn 'Amir, a very rich man, was there, 291 and Ya'la b. Umayyah had arrived with him with a large sum of money and more than 400 camels.

They gathered together in 'A'ishah's house and exchanged opinions. "Let's go to 'Alī and fight him,"they said.!!_

"We don't have the strength to fight the people of Medina," one of them replied. "Let us rather go and enter al-Başrah and al-Küfah. Talhah has a following and popularity in al- Kūfah, and al-Zubayr has popularity and support in al-Başrah