4643 — Muhammad ibn al-‘Alā’ narrated to us, Abū Bakr narrated to us, from ‘Āṣim, who said:
I heard al-Ḥajjāj while he was on the pulpit saying: "Fear Allah as much as you are able — there is no exception in this — and hear and obey — there is no exception in this — the Commander of the Faithful, ‘Abd al-Malik. By Allah, if I commanded the people to leave through a gate of the mosque..."

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It was also transmitted by Ibn ‘Asākir in *Tārīkh Dimashq* 12/158–159 via the chain of Abū Dāwūd, with this same chain of transmission. However, he named al-Rabī‘ ibn Khālid as "Buzaygh," and likewise Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Mustaghfirī named him so, as quoted by Ibn Mākūlā in *al-Ikmāl* 1/262–263, who said: "I hope that his recording is correct." Ibn Ḥajar also cited him in *al-Tabṣīr* under the section on Buzaygh. As for al-Bukhārī, he mentioned him in his *al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr* 2/131, but named him "Buzay‘" with an unpointed letter instead of a pointed one.
Ibn Mākūlā mentioned that he was among the righteous, and that he went out with Ibn al-Ash‘ath and was killed.
The Battle of al-Jamājim: a battle that took place in Iraq between ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ash‘ath and al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī. Ibn al-Ash‘ath's army numbered more than thirty thousand cavalry and approximately one hundred and twenty thousand infantry, among them scholars, jurists, and righteous men. Ibn al-Ash‘ath defeated al-Ḥajjāj several times, while reinforcements for al-Ḥajjāj's armies kept coming from the caliph. Then Ibn al-Ash‘ath was defeated and killed. There is disagreement over the year in which it occurred: some say the year 83 AH, and others say the year 82 AH. Al-Dhahabī reconciled the two by saying: "Perhaps it occurred at the end of the year 82 and the beginning of the year 83." See *Duwal al-Islām* by al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī, events of the year 82, p. 58, and his *Tārīkh al-Islām*, events of 81–90.
"Al-Jamājim" refers to the Battle of Dayr al-Jamājim, which is on the outskirts of Kūfah, seven leagues from it, at the edge of the desert road leading from Baṣrah.
His saying: "The messenger of any one of you in his need" — this is an allusion by al-Ḥajjāj to preferring ‘Uthmān over ‘Alī, may Allah be pleased with them both, since the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, left ‘Uthmān on the day of Badr to tend to his sick wife, and sent ‘Alī on the day of the Pilgrimage after Abū Bakr to proclaim: "Let no naked person circumambulate the House." Al-Ḥajjāj was ignorant of the fact that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had done the opposite on the day of al-Ḥudaybiyyah, sending ‘Uthmān and leaving ‘Alī as his deputy in some of the military expeditions. See *Badhl al-Majhūd* 18/164.