al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
al-Ḥajjāj · الحجاج
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Umayyad governor whose byword was bloodshed, invoked as the emblem of the killing sword to which the addressee's cutting tongue is likened.
The sword of al-Ḥajjāj and the tongue of Ibn Ḥazm were two brothers, and you have made yourself brother to them both.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The Umayyad governor of ʻIrāq whose questioning of Ibn al-Qirriyyah produced a rhymed survey of the Arab tribes, each characterised by a distinguishing quality.
Of this same sort is al-Ḥajjāj's asking Ibn al-Qirriyyah about the tribes of the Arabs, and his characterising each of them by what it was distinguished by — and in his characterisation there is no ribaldry.
Quraysh — the greatest of the tribes in forbearance and the most honourable of them in station Banū ʻĀmir — the longest of them in spears and the most generous of them in the morning Banū Sulaym — the greatest of them in assemblies and the most generous of them in what they withhold Thaqīf — the noblest of them in ancestry and the most numerous of them in delegations Banū Zubayd — the most constan …
And so on, until he had gone through most of the tribes;