Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Hishām ibn Ḥassān 1 says:
أحصوا ما قتل الحجاج صبرا فبلغ مائة وعشرين ألف قتيل
They did a count of the people whom Ḥajjāj detained and killed and it
reached one hundred and twenty thousand. 2
Likewise, in one morning Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Malik freed 81000 prisoners from
the prison of Ḥajjāj. 3
In fact, they even harassed some of the Ṣaḥābah of Rasūl Allah H who
opposed the Umayyads or whom they did not have satisfaction regarding even
if they did not do anything. Hence Ziyād ibn Abīhi detained ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim I
when he refused to bring forth his fugitive cousin; Ziyād had actually intended
to kill him. 4
As for Ḥajjāj and his transgression, it is more famous than a fire upon a hill. He
would inflict upon them severe punishments, subdue them with vigour, would
judge between them without the Sunnah and would deploy against them the
riffraff of the people of Shām. 5
Ibn al-Jawzī says:
كان الحجاج قد أذل أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.‏
Ḥajjāj had disgraced the Ṣaḥābah of Rasūl Allah H. 6
1 Hishām ibn Ḥassān al-Qurdūsī al-Azdī, their client, Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Baṣrī. A prominent scholar, an
ascetic and a reliable transmitter. The most meticulous of narrators from Ibn Sīrīn. But there is some
criticism regarding his narrations from Ḥasan and ʿAṭāʾ due to him omitting them. He passed away
in 148 A.H. His narrations appear in the six books. See: Tahdhīb al-Kamāl 30/181; Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ
6/355; Tadhkirah al-Ḥuffāẓ 1/163; Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb 11/32.
2 Sunan al-Tirmidhī 4/433.
3 Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/136.
4 Al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 3/330.
5 Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 7/143; al-Muntaẓam 7/46; Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 2/42.
6 Al-Muntaẓam 6/336.
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