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He searched for the Umayyads, the children of the Khulafāʾ and others,
and he apprehended them. None amongst them survived besides an infant
child or those who fled to Andalus. 1
He did not even leave those upon whom he got his hands in Makkah and
Madīnah. 2 So much so that he searched for them even in the belly of the earth, 3
for he ordered that the graves of some of them be exhumed. 4
So in essence, these doings were all dictated by the clash over the materialistic
things of this world. The Alawids thus were victims of these crimes due to them
being part of the struggle, being no different than all else due to the human
disposition being one and the same.
Secondly, the Umayyads offended the Zubayrids 5 as well for the same reason.
This was immediately after the clash which had ensued between the parties and
after the Umayyads sealed the matter to their advantage. Hence some of their
governors would curse ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr I upon the pulpit. 6 His eldest
son was likewise lashed by the order of al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, a bag of cold
water was thrown on his head on a cold day and thereafter he was made to stand
at the door of the Masjid where he passed away. 7
The objective of the Umayyads in doing this grave action was the exact same
objective which propelled ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr I to be harsh to his real
brother, a partisan of the Umayyads, who allegedly passed away after he was
1 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 5/78.
2 Al-Muntaẓam 7/321; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 5/89.
3 Tārīkh Ibn Khaldūn 4/154.
4 Al-Badʾ wa al-Tārīkh 6/74.
5 The Zubayrids were the supporters of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr during his leadership. They
comprised of the notables of Kūfah and Baṣrah and whoever else followed them. See: Yūsuf al-ʿIsh:
al-Dawlah al-Umawiyyah p. 193.
6 Al-Muḥallā 5/64.
7 Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 4/20; Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 8/225; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/87; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb
3/116.
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