The tyranny and oppression of Hajjaj bin Yusuf ath-Thaqafi has been an established fact and a byword throughout history. Despite this, historical examples exist where certain individuals established Hajjaj bin Yusuf ath-Thaqafi as the criterion (Mi’yar) between disbelief (Kufr) and Islam.
๐ The Case of Mundhir Abu Hassan
There is a narrator named Mundhir Abu Hassan; regarding him, the people of knowledge have written:
“Kana Hajjajiyyan, Yaqulu ‘Man Khaalafa Al-Hajjaju Faqad Khaalafa Al-Islam'”
“He was a Hajjaji (a partisan of Hajjaj); he used to say: ‘Whoever opposed Hajjaj has indeed opposed Islam’.”
References:
Ath-Thiqat by Ibn Hibban: 5/421
Musnad Ahmad: 33/315 (Ar-Risalah Edition)
โ ๏ธ A Warning Against Exaggeration
This is one of the worst examples of exaggeration (Ghulu) in obedience to rulers and of using Islam as a crutch to defend their tyranny and oppression.
In the contemporary era, just as “Hajjajis” exist, there are similarlyโnay, even more soโthose present who worship their own respective “Hajjajs.”
(Translated by Mohammed bin Thajammul Hussain, from the Facebook post of Shaykh Hafiz Khizr Hayat, Islamic University of Madinah, from Urdu to English.)
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