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god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger. O Allâh! grant that after me he may have power over none other to kill him!"
Then they executed him upon the Nitâʾa [may God have mercy upon him!] And after his head was struck off, it uttered, "There is no god but God." And el-Hajjâj lived after this fifteen days. And this happened in the year 95. And the age of Saʾîd [may God be satisfied of him!] was nine-and-forty years.[1]
Allâh is all-knowing!
- ↑ It is said that during his last illness el-Hajjâj was tormented by the spirit of Saʾîd-ibn-Jubair. The report was that whenever he fell asleep he saw Saʾîd come and seize him by the girdle, saying, "Enemy of God, arise! why didst thou murder me?" On which he would awake in terror, and exclaim, "What business has Saʾîd-ibn-Jubair with me?" It is also related that a person saw el-Hajjâj in a dream after his death, and that upon being asked what had been done to him, he stated that God had caused him to die the death of every man whom he had slain, but that he had suffered seventy deaths on account of his treatment of the saintly Saʾîd.
