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And al-Dhahabī has alluded to the fact that Ḥajjāj would denigrate the Ṣaḥābah
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Hence in one of his sermons he said:
يا عذيري من عبد هذيل يزعم أن قراته من عند الله،‏ والله ما هي إل رجز من رجز العراب،‏ ما أنزلها الله
على نبيه
Will anyone excuse me regarding ʿAbd Hudhayl (if I kill him or harass him)?
He claims that his reading of the Qurʾān is from Allah. By Allah it is not but
from the chants of the Bedouins, Allah did not reveal it upon his Nabī. 2
And in another sermon he said:
والله لو أدركت عبد هذيل لضربت عنقه
By Allah if I get hold of ʿAbd Hudhayl I will kill him. 3
In these statements he was referring to ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd I. Whilst
commenting upon them al-Dhahabī states:
قاتل الله الحجاج ما أجرأه على الله كيف يقول هذا في العبد الصالح عبد الله بن مسعود
May Allah destroy Ḥajjāj, how bold was he against Allah! How could he make
such statements regarding ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd, the pious bondsman? 4
And Ibn Kathīr says:
1 Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 5/44.
2 Sunan Abī Dāwūd: chapter of Sunnah: sub-chapter regarding the Khulafāʾ: ḥadīth no. 4643. Al-Albānī
has deemed the narration authentic. See what propelled him to make this statement in al-Bidāyah wa
al-Nihāyah 9/128.
3 Mustadrak al-Ḥākim: chapter regarding knowing the Ṣaḥābah: mention of ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
ibn al-ʿAwwām: narration no. 6352.
4 Tārīkh al-Islam 6/320.
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