Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

كان محمد بن علي بن أبي طالب المعروف بابن الحنفية وعبد الله بن عباس مقيمين بمكة منذ قتل
الحسين،‏ فدعاهما ابن الزبير إلى البيعة له فامتنعا وقال:‏ ل نبايع حتى يجتمع الناس على خلفية وتبعهما
جماعة على ذلك،‏ فشدد عليهم ابن الزبير وحصرهم
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, who was commonly known as Muḥammad
ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAbbās were both residing in Makkah
since the martyrdom of Ḥusayn I. Ibn al-Zubayr called them to pledge
their allegiance but they refused and they said, “We will not pledge until
the people all unite upon a Khalīfah.” And a group of people followed them
in this regard. Hence Ibn al-Zubayr was hard on them and he besieged
them. 1
And Ibn Kathīr states:
لما بويع لبن الزبير لم يبايعه ‏)يعني ابن الحنفية(‏ فجرى بينهما شر عظيم،‏ حتى هم ابن الزبير به وبأهله
When people pledged their allegiance to Ibn al-Zubayr he, i.e. Ibn al-
Ḥanafiyyah, did not pledge his allegiance. Thus great evil ensued between
the two of them and Ibn al-Zubayr eventually intended to inflict harm
upon him and his family. 2
The Umayyads themselves also suffered greatly and were massacred awfully, in
ways that the Alawids were not, at the hands of al-Saffāḥ, 3 the first Khalīfah of
the Abbasids:
إذ تتبع بني أمية من أولد الخلفاء وغيرهم فأخذهم،‏ ولم يفلت منهم إل رضيع أو من هرب إلى الندلس
1 Fatḥ al-Bārī 8/327; al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 5/106; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 54/338; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ
3/356.
2 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/38.
3 ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qurashī, Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Hāshimī, commonly known as al-
Saffāḥ (the blood shedder). The first ruler of the Abbasids upon whose hands the Umayyad dynasty
fell. He was acknowledge as the Khalīfah and given allegiance in Kufah in 132 A.H. He ruled over Iraq,
Khorasan, Hijaz, Sham and Egypt. He passed away in 136 A.H. after having lived for twenty eight
years. See: Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 32/276; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 6/77; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 6/247;
Ma ʾāthir al-Ināqah 1/170.
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