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vanguards reached Kufa. So al‐Mansur was afraid, intended to escape, and mentioned the words
of Imam al‐Sadiq, peace be on him, concerning that the 'Abbasids would win the government.
That was when he said to al‐Rabi': "Where is the statement of their (Imam called) al‐Sadiq? How
have our children not attained it (the government)? So where is the emirate of the boys?"
When he was besieged and straitened, he ordered the camels and other animals to be put at all
the gates of Kufa, that he might escape from it. Al‐Mansur's troops returned after their defeat
because of a river they found and were not able to pass it. So they all came back. Ibrahim's
companions had moved through water, that they might fight on one front. Thus, when they tried
to escape, the water prevented them from escaping. Ibrahim along with some of his companions
resisted. Hemid b. Qahtaba fought against them and sent their heads to 'Isa. A treacherous arrow
came and fell into Ibrahim's mouth, and he changed his place and said to his companions: "Bring
me down!" They brought him down off his mount, and he said: "Allah's command is a sealed
determination! We wanted an affair, and Allah wanted other than it."
His companions and his special group gathered around him to defend him and to fight on his
behalf. So Hemid b. Qahtaba said (to his troops): "Attack that group (of fighters) to remove them
from their places and to know that around which they have gathered." They attacked them and
removed them from Ibrahim. They cut off his holy head and brought it to 'Isa. So he prostrated
and sent the head to al‐Mansur.[1]
With this one of the most wonderful pages of holy jihad was ended and a great person in the
Islamic world was folded, while he intended to put an end to oppression and tyranny, and to
return the honorable life in Islam.
When al‐Mansur, the wicked and evil one, heard of the murder of the great martyr (Ibrahim), he
was about to fly out of happiness, for he achieved all his hopes and expectations. He found
delicious the food which was before him, and he said to those around him: "Ibrahim intended to
prevent me from (having) such a food!"[2]
[1] Ibid., p. 224.
[2] Al‐Mas'udi, Murujj al‐Dhahab, vol. 3, p. 224.
Surely, the revolt of Ibrahim al‐Zaki was not for the enjoyments and pleasures of the world; rather
it was for destroying evil deeds, annihilating oppression, and saving the people from the terrorist
government that ruled them during the days of al‐Mansur. Surely that immortal revolt was for
achieving ideals, putting the Qur'anic laws into practice among the general life of the people. Al‐
Mansur happily turned to those present in his gathering and said to them: "By Allah, I have never
seen one more loyal to Merwan's children than al‐Hajjajj!"
So al‐Musayyab b. Zahra al‐Dabbi opposed him and showed him that they obeyed him more than
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