الحجاج .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

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May God curse the immoral Ibn Yusuf. By God, if the people of the East and the West had gathered to kill Saeed bin Jubair, God would have made them enter the Fire.

Al-Hassan Al-Basri

Ibn al-Kalbi, the most famous Arab narrator, narrated that the Prophet Ibrahim, peace be upon him, when he called on his Lord by saying: “My Lord, make this a safe country and provide its people with fruits.” From it, He provided its people with fruits...

This spot was known as Waj, and it was inhabited during periods of history by a number of tribes, the most famous of which was the Thaqif tribe, and before the advent of Islam, the Thaqafis surrounded their city with a wall surrounding it, so it was known since then as Taif, and they also developed agriculture in their city, especially the cultivation of grapes and pomegranates, and they achieved Behind that are great fortunes, and it is known that the king of money is the king of power. That is why the intellectuals attained a high position among the Arabs of the northern peninsula, which was only surpassed by the status of Quraysh. An alliance was formed between the aristocracy of Quraish, especially from the Umayyads, and the leaders of Thaqif, and some of the men of Mecca owned lands in Taif, and they resided from
There are tanning factories, and after the establishment of Islam, the Prophet tried for the first time to migrate to Taif, but he failed to convince the intellectuals to cooperate with him.

After a while, an educated delegation came to the Prophet, announcing the entry into Islam. And after the death of the Prophet, in which both Mecca and Taif preserved Islam, and the intellectuals did not think of apostasy, and the Umayyad cultural cooperation remained the same, until when the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs ended and the Umayyad Caliphate was established, this cooperation emerged in its clearest form, so that one would almost say that the Umayyad Caliphate was a cultural Umayyad During the era of the first founder of the caliphate, the most prominent of his collaborators was al-Mughira ibn Shu’bah in Iraq, and during the era of Abd Marwan, the second founder of the Umayyad rule, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi had the greatest role in this establishment and its continuation. king ben

Al-Hajjaj was born in Taif. He grew up and learned, and at the beginning of his life he practiced his teaching profession, but he got tired of it, so he decided to join the service of Abd al-Malik Ibn Marwan, and he had that, as he began his political life as an ordinary soldier in Ibn Marwan’s army. First, the job of the one responsible for the discipline of the Umayyad army, then Abd al-Malik assigned him to lead a military campaign against Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca.

The pilgrims marched to Hijaz in the year 572/691. He stayed in Taif and stayed there for a month, then left for Makkah, and set up the launchers on Mount Abu Qubays, where their shells began to fall on the quantity, with the support of the Caliph himself, although he had uttered cries of denunciation.
When you knocked The armies of his predecessor, Caliph Yazid bin Muawiya, had destroyed the walls of the Kaaba eight years earlier

Al-Hajjaj did not rush matters, but his goal was to tighten matters around Ibn al-Zubayr, so that he would implement what he had of supplies, and at that time he would be forced to surrender, and at the same time he sent a squad of his soldiers who took control of the city, so that if the siege was prolonged, and supplies ran out in Mecca, Ibn al-Zubayr went out and fought He fought heroically until he fell dead, along with a few of his aides. They met the same fate in the year 73 / 692, after a siege that lasted about six months. from

The killing of Ibn al-Zubayr was one of the historical days in the life of the Umayyad dynasty, as the most dangerous political attempt that took place in the face of the Umayyad rule ended, an attempt that shook its foundations for nine years, and almost destroyed it. Arranged directly after the caliph.

And after al-Hajjaj eliminated Ibn al-Zubayr, he became the master of all parts of the Arabian Peninsula, and this did not satisfy his ambition, but rather considered it a stepping stone to receiving another, higher position. Especially since it coincided with the intensification of the activity of the Azariqa among the Kharijites in it. Abd al-Malik reviewed the names of the pillars of his state, and found al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf the most worthy of people to be the governor of Iraq.