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 316 Medīna and sacked it for three days; and in his third year he raided the Kaʿba."

The accusations brought against him may be due to ʿAbbāsid enmity; he himself denied that he drank wine. No progress was made in this reign to extend Islām; on the contrary, as we have seen, there were serious disasters in North Africa.