—Hujr?”
He answered, “I saw the people’s welfare in putting him to death, and I feared the corruption that might befall them (1).
Their execution occurred in the year 51 AH, and their burial site at ʿAdhrāʾ is still visible and visited.
Hujr left two sons—ʿUbayd Allah and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; the governor Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr put them both to death, for they were supporters of ʿAlī.
As for:
96 – Hujr al-Sharr, Hujr ibn Yazīd ibn Salamah al-Kindī *
He was a first cousin of Hujr al-Khayr. His full lineage is Hujr ibn Yazīd ibn Salamah ibn Murrah ibn Hujr ibn ʿAdī ibn Rabīʿah ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Akramin al-Kindī. He came to the Prophet ﷺ as a delegate, later joined the partisans of ʿAlī and was present on the Day of al-Ḥakamayn. Afterwards he became one of Muʿāwiyah’s commanders, who appointed him governor of Armenia. This is reported by Ibn Saʿd (2). No hadith is transmitted from him either.
97 – Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah al-Laythī al-Kinānī ** (ʿ)
He was the last person on earth to have seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and the situation remained thus in