Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

Upon which the former said:
أما السم فال،‏ وأما الكنية فأكتني بأبي محمد،‏ فغير كنيته
As for name I will not change it. And as for my title I switch to Abū
Muḥammad.
He thus changed his title. 1
Ibn Khallikān 2 says, whilst commenting upon this incident:
إنما قال له عبد الملك هذه المقالة لبغضه في علي بن أبي طالب رضي الله عنه،‏ فكره أن يسمع اسمه
وكنيته
ʿAbd al-Malik only said this to him because of his hatred for ʿAlī ibn Abī
Ṭālib I. He disliked hearing his name and his title. 3
In conclusion, reviling him and cursing him was a practice well-followed by most
of the Umayyads. To the extent that when Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik came to
perform Ḥajj after assuming the Khilāfah, Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Walīd ibn
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān 4 said to him:
يا أمير المؤمنين،‏ إن الله لم يزل ينعم على أهل بيت أمير المؤمنين وينصر خلفيته المظلوم،‏ ولم يزالوا
يلعنون في هذه المواطن الصالحة أبا تراب،‏ فأمير المؤمنين ينبغي له أن يلعنه في هذه المواطن الصالحة
1 Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 3/207; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 43/45; Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 4/165; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh
4/422.
2 Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Irbilī, Shams al-Dīn. More commonly known as Ibn Khallikān.
A Shāfiʿī jurist and a master in literature, Arabic and history. He was born in 608 A.H. and hails from
the lineage of the Barāmikah. He was appointed as the supreme judge in Shām. One of his many
good attributes was that no one would ever dare to backbite regarding anyone else in his presence.
He passed away in 681 A.H. amongst his works are: Wafayāt al-Aʿyān. See: al-ʿIbar fī Khabar man Ghabar
5/334; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah al-Kubrā 8/32; al-Nujūm al-Zāhirah 7/353; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 5/371.
3 Wafayāt al-Aʿyān 3/275.
4 I did not come across his biography.
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