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al‐Hajjajj did to his masters, the Umayyads, saying: "O Commander of the faithful, al‐Hajjajj did
not precede us to an affair, and we remained behind him. By Allah, Allah did not create on earth
someone more beloved to us than our Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family. You ordered
us to kill his children, and we obeyed you and did (that); therefore, are we loyal to you?"
His words hurt al‐Mansur, and he shouted at him: "Sit down! May you not sit down!"[1] Al‐
Mansur possessed alone the kingdom after the revolt of the 'Alawids. After that, the tyrannical
and arrogant one, al‐Mansur, went too far in oppressing and exhausting the subjects. That was
because the good forces of which he was afraid were defeated. As a result he became earnest in
punishing the 'Alawids severely and in uprooting them. In the following pages we will deal with
the different kinds of exhaustion they faced and which cannot be described out of its atrocity and
severity.
His Putting them in Columns
When the revolt of the 'Alawids was suppressed, al‐Mansur looked for the rest of the 'Alawids. He
put those he found into empty columns built of plaster and bricks. He found a handsome boy of
al‐Hasan's. He handed over the boy to a builder and ordered him to put him into an empty column
and to brick him up. He entrusted one of his reliable persons with carrying that task. The builder
put the boy into the empty column. He felt pity for him, and he left for him an outlet in the
column, that some air might enter through it. He said to the boy: "Do not worry! Be patient! For
surely, I will take you out of this column when it gets dark!"
When it became dark, the builder came and took the 'Alawid (boy) out of it and said to: "Fear
Allah in respect with (shedding) my blood and that of those workers with me. Hide your person;
for surely I have taken you out of the column in the dark, for I have fear that your grandfather,
Allah's Apostle, may Allah and his family, will be my opponent before Allah on the Day of
Judgment." He asked the
[1] Ibid.
boy to hide his person, and he asked him to tell his mother of that, that her soul might be good,
and her impatience might be less. The boy escaped, and none came to know where he lived. The
builder reached the house appointed by the 'Alawid boy, and he heard sound like that of bees out
of crying. He knew that it was the boy's mother. He told her about the story of her son and went
away from her.[1]
The Case of the 'Alawids' Heads
The story of the case is full of sorrows and anxieties, for al‐Mansur filled it with the heads of the
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