[3] Abu al-Wazi then practically demonstrated that to him by attacking a person who spoke against the Kharijites.
[4] During the first siege of Mecca in 683 he sided with Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr to defend the city against the Umayyad besiegers but after the siege was over left him because of a difference of opinion on the murder of the third caliph Uthman (r. 644–656) and went to Basra where the city was already in civil war over tribal disputes.
He took over the control of the city by murdering the deputy governor and broke open the prison to free his fellow Kharijites.
From there he undertook several raids against the southern Iraqi settlements before being killed by the government forces in 685.
[1] The Azariqa were the most radical of all the Kharijite groups, their doctrines being attributed to Nafi.