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was because they conceded the merit of the Hashimids and their status despite
all that had transpired between them. Whatever had happened did not stop them
from expressing indignation at this marriage which in a way was compromising
the high social standing of the Hashimids.
Ibn Taymiyyah mentions:
والحجاج كان قد تزوج ببنت عبد الله بن جعفر فلم يرض بذلك بنو أمية حتى نزعوها منه،‏ لنهم معظمون
لبني هاشم.‏ وقالوا:‏ ليس الحجاج كفؤا لشريفة هاشمية
Ḥajjāj had married a daughter of ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar. But the Umayyads
were not happy and subsequently took her away from him due to them
revering the Banū Hāshim. 1 They said, “Ḥajjāj is not compatible for a noble
Hashimid lady.” 2
This shows that their affinity for the Hashimids was very strong. But it would at
times diminish when they would be overtaken by affinity for their own people,
or when overwhelmed by the traces of the conflicts that had transpired between
them. Hence Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam told Abū Hurayrah I when he was upon
his deathbed:
ما وجدت عليك منذ صطحبنا إل في حبك الحسن والحسين
I have no grudge against you since we have been in each other’s company
other than because of you loving Ḥasan and Ḥusayn. 3
1 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 4/559.
2 As for the Shīʿah, some of their contemporaries have suggested that the reason why the Umayyads
were not happy with the marriage of Ḥajjāj is that they feared that it would remove the acrimony he
bore for the Banū Hāshim, specifically the Banū Ṭālib. See: Dirāsāt fī Minhāj al-Sunnah li Maʿrifah Ibn
Taymiyah p. 431; Fī Khabar Tazwīj Umm Kulthūm min ʿUmar p. 60; Muḥāḍarāt fī al-Iʿtiqād p. 697.
3 Al-Ṭabarānī: al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr: ḥadīth no. 2656. Al-Haythamī has deemed its narrators as authentic
in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid 9/181.
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