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of attaining victory and defeating the Umayyads. 1 Thus they had created such an
environment that the mere inclination of a man toward any of the opponents,
like the Alawids and the Zubayrids, would engender him incurring harm and
drawing harassment.
Hence, when it reached ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād that a certain individual was
condemning the murder of Ḥusayn I, he ordered that he be lashed and
imprisoned. 2 And Ḥajjāj’s treatment of the Shīʿah was such that he would not
acknowledge the good people amongst them and he would not overlook their bad
people. 3 Likewise ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān would not give a hearing to the poets
of Muḍar due to them being Zubayrids. 4 And when a Zubayrid hailing from Iraq
asked one of the freed slaves of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab whether he (Saʿīd ibn al-
Musayyab) preferred ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Zubayr or the people of Shām, Saʿīd having
heard his query turned around and said:
أفال أضبث بك اآلن،‏ فأقول هذه زبيري
Should I not get you apprehended immediately by reporting that ‘this
person is a Zubayrī?’ 5
Likewise, Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam had innovated the bringing forth of the Khuṭbah
before the ʿĪd Ṣalāh, he was the first person to do so according to popular opinion. 6
The reason behind this was that he would revile ʿAlī I in his sermon. This
disenchanted the people and consequently they started leaving immediately
after the Ṣalāh; he thus brought the sermon forward in order to force the people
to give him a hearing.
1 Al-Dawlah al-Umawiyyah p. 222.
2 Al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah 6/351.
3 Minhāj al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyyah 2/92.
4 Ṭabaqāt Fuḥūl al-Shuʿarāʾ of Ibn Sallām al-Jumaḥī 2/418; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 52/261.
5 Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 5/135.
6 See: Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr: al-Tamhīd 10/261; Ibn Qudāmah: al-Mughnī 2/121; Sharḥ al-Nawawī ʿalā Ṣaḥīḥ
Muslim 2/21; Fatḥ al-Bārī 2/450; ʿUmdah al-Qārī 6/280.
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