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They brought him down from the pulpit and they hit him with their sandals till
they made him bleed. 1
In Madīnah also several of its governors would revile ʿAlī I: Marwān ibn al-
Ḥakam would revile ʿAlī I every Friday upon the pulpit, 2 and Hishām ibn
Ismāʿīl 3 would likewise swear him upon the pulpit. 4
As for Iraq, many of its governors would criticise him, some lesser than others,
one of them being Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah I. 5
Ibn al-Jawzī says:
أقام المغيرة على الكوفة عامال لمعاوية سبع سنين وأشهرا هو حسن السيرة إل أنه لم يدع الدعاء لعثمان
والوقيعة في علي.‏
Mughīrah I remained the governor of Kufah for Muʿāwiyah I for a
period of seven years and few months. He ruled sublimely. However, he did
not stop from praying for ʿUthmān I and from criticising ʿAlī I. 6
Mughīrah would say:
اللهم ارحم عثمان بن عفان وتجاوز عنه واجزه بأحسن عمله،‏ فإنه عمل بكتابك واتبع سنة نبيك وجمع
كلمتنا وحقن دماءنا وقتل مظلوما،‏ اللهم فارحم أنصاره وأولياءه ومحبيه والطالبين بدمه ويدعو على قتلته
1 Al-Fākihī: Akhbār Makkah 3/347; al-Bayān wa al-Tabyīn p. 551; al-Muntaẓam 7/103.
2 Al-ʿIlal wa Maʿrifah al-Rijāl 3/176; Tārīkh Madīnah Dimashq 57/243; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 8/259;
Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ p. 190.
3 Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Hishām al-Makhzūmī al-Madanī. The governor of Madīnah. He was from
amongst the scholars and the transmitters. He is the one who hit Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab when he
refused to pledge his allegiance to Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik. He was dismissed after two years of the
Khilāfah of Walīd and was substituted with ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. He visited Damascus and passed
away there in 88 A.H. See: al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 5/244; al-Thiqāt 5/501; al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah 9/76, 160;
Taʿjīl al-Manfaʾah p. 430.
4 Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā 5/220.
5 Musnad al-Imām Aḥmad 1/189.
6 Al-Muntaẓam 5/241.
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