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to the advice of Rasūl Allah H regarding the Anṣār; he advised that
the good of their good doers be accepted and the bad of their falterers be
overlooked, and I have advised him not to accept the good of your good
doers and not to pardon the bad of your evil doers. 1
The threatening was not unique to a specific place, rather it was employed in any
region where there was resentment and remonstration. Hence in Makkah, Khālid
ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qasrī delivered a sermon in the people and he said:
إني والله ما أوتى بأحد يطعن على إمامه إل صلبته في الحرم
Indeed by Allah, if a person who criticises his leader is brought to me I will
crucify him in the Ḥaram. 2
Harshness was also deployed against the people of Madīnah who were not
partisans of the Umayyads. 3 In fact the pledge for Muʿāwiyah I was forcibly
taken from many of them. 4 But it was most vigorously deployed in Iraq due to
it being the hub of the opposition consisting of the Shīʿah, the Khawārij and
others.
Ḥajjāj and others had realised that the people of Baṣrah and Kūfah would revolt
wherever they found the time opportune, and that the only requirements for the
success of their revolt was safety at the time of launching the revolt and the hope
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He heard from Anas Ibn Mālik I. His father would entrust him with many a duties, like combatting
Ibn al-Ashʿath, and would deputise him. He passed away in 91 A.H. His father was struck with severe
grief after his demise and passed away a week later. See: al-Muntaẓam 6/302; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq
52/259; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/47.
1 Al-Bayān wa al-Tabyīn p. 201; Bughyah al-Ṭalab fī Tārīkh Ḥalab 5/2058; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 12/170;
al-Muntaẓam 6/343.
2 Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 4/8; al-Muntaẓam 6/299; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 4/262.
3 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 2/85.
4 Al-Badʾ wa al-Tārīkh 5/229; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 11/235.
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