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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

the muṣḥaf and said, “Am I to be killed as my cousin ʿUthmān was killed?”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wāqid al-Jarmī relates:
When they agreed to put al-Walīd to death, they placed the affair in the hands of Yazīd ibn al-Walīd. Yazīd consulted his brother al-ʿAbbās, who dissuaded him, yet Yazīd set out by night with forty men, smashed the door of the royal enclosure, bound its governor, hurriedly carted off the treasury, raised a banner for his cousin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and distributed the money among two thousand men. Battle then broke out between them and al-Walīd’s partisans, but the latter defected to Yazīd. Yazīd moved into the fortress of al-Bakhrāʾ; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz marched against him and plundered his baggage. At first ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz was routed, then he rallied, and a herald cried out, “Kill the enemy of Allah with the punishment of the people of Lot—stone him!”

They stormed the palace, surrounded him, clambered down upon him and killed him, declaring, “We take vengeance on you only for violating what Allah has made sacred: for drinking wine and for marrying the concubines of your father.”

His head was dispatched to Yazīd, who had promised one hundred thousand to whoever brought it. It is said that his hand preceded his head by a night, and that after the Friday prayer his head was hoisted on a spear. When his brother Sulaymān saw it he exclaimed, “Away with him! He was a wine-bibber and a libertine; he even tried to seduce me.” (1)

It is reported that he lived thirty-six years and was killed in Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 126 AH. His reign lasted one year and three months.

His mother was the daughter of Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, governor of Yemen and brother of al-Ḥajjāj.

Al-Masʿūdī records assorted calamities perpetrated by him—Allah knows best.

169 – al-Faʾfāʾ Khālid ibn Salamah al-Qurashī al-Kūfī * (M, 4)
The imām and jurist, Abū Salamah Khālid ibn Salamah ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah al-Qurashī al-Makhzūmī al-Kūfī, nicknamed al-Faʾfāʾ.

(1) The author states in his History, vol. 5, pp. 176, 179: “I say: People loathed al-Walid because of his flagrant immorality; they considered silence about him a sin and thus rebelled against him. Nothing reliably proves that he was an unbeliever or a heretic, though he was certainly notorious for wine-drinking and sodomy.” (*) Ṭabaqat Ibn Saad 6/347; al-Tarikh al-Kabir 3/154; al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil 3/334; Tahdhib al-Kamal 359; Tadhhib al-Tahdhib 3/95; Tarikh al-Islam 5/239; Mizān al-Iʿtidāl 1/631; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 3/95; Khulāṣat Tadhhib al-Kamal 101; Shadharat al-Dhahab 1/189.

المُصْحَفَ، وَقَالَ: أُقْتَلُ كَمَا قُتِلَ ابْنُ عَمِّي عُثْمَانُ. وَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بنُ وَاقِدٍ الجَرْمِيُّ، قَالَ: لَمَّا اجْتَمَعُوا عَلَى قَتْلِ الوَلِيْدِ، قَلَّدُوا أَمرَهم يَزِيْدَ بنَ الوَلِيْدِ، فَشَاوَرَ أَخَاهُ العَبَّاسَ، فَنَهَاهُ، فَخَرَجَ يَزِيْدُ فِي أَرْبَعِيْنَ نَفْساً لَيْلاً، فَكَسَرُوا بَابَ المَقصُوْرَةِ، وَرَبَطُوا وَالِيَهَا، وَحَمَلَ يَزِيْدُ الأَمْوَالَ عَلَى العَجَلِ، وَعَقَدَ رَايَةً لابْنِ عَمِّهِ عَبْدِ العَزِيْزِ، وَأَنفَقَ الأَمْوَالَ فِي أَلْفَيْ رَجُلٍ، فَتَحَارَبَ هُم وَأَعْوَانَ الوَلِيْدِ، ثُمَّ انحَازَ أَعْوَانُ الوَلِيْدِ إِلَى يَزِيْدَ، ثُمَّ نَزَلَ يَزِيْدُ حِصْنَ البَخْرَاءِ، فَقَصَدَهُ عَبْدُ العَزِيْزِ، وَنَهَبَ أَثْقَالَه، فَانْكَسَرَ أَوَّلاً عَبْدُ العَزِيْزِ، ثُمَّ ظَهَرَ، وَنَادَى مُنَادٍ: اقتُلُوا عَدُوَّ اللهِ قِتْلَةَ قَوْمِ لُوْطٍ، ارمُوْهُ بِالحِجَارَةِ. فَدَخَلَ القَصرَ، فَأَحَاطُوا بِهِ، وَتَدَلَّوْا إِلَيْهِ، فَقَتلُوْهُ، وَقَالُوا: إِنَّمَا نَنقِمُ عَلَيْكَ انْتِهَاكَ مَا حَرَّمَ اللهُ، وَشُربَ الخَمْرِ، وَنِكَاحَ أُمَّهَاتِ أَوْلاَدِ أَبِيْكَ. وَنُفِدَ إِلَى يَزِيْدَ بِالرَّأْسِ، وَكَانَ قَدْ جَعَلَ لِمَنْ أَتَاهُ بِهِ مائَةَ أَلفٍ. وَقِيْلَ: سَبَقَتْ كَفُّه رَأْسَه بِلَيْلَةٍ، فَنُصِبَ رَأْسُه عَلَى رُمْحٍ بَعْدَ الجُمُعَةِ، فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ أَخُوْهُ سُلَيْمَانُ، فَقَالَ: بُعْداً لَهُ، كَانَ شَرُوباً لِلْخَمرِ، مَاجِناً، لَقَدْ رَاوَدَنِي عَلَى نَفْسِي (١) . قِيْلَ: عَاشَ سِتّاً وَثَلاَثِيْنَ سَنَةً، وَكَانَ مَصْرَعُه فِي جُمَادَى الآخِرَةِ، سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَعِشْرِيْنَ وَمائَةٍ. فَتَمَلَّكَ سَنَةً وَثَلاَثَةَ أَشْهُرٍ. وَأُمُّهُ: هِيَ بِنْتُ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ يُوْسُفَ الثَّقَفِيِّ، أَمِيْرِ اليَمَنِ، أَخِي الحَجَّاجِ. وَنَقَلَ عَنْهُ: المَسْعُوْدِيُّ مَصَائِبَ - فَاللهُ أَعْلَمُ -. ١٦٩ - الفَأْفَاءُ خَالِدُ بنُ سَلَمَةَ القُرَشِيُّ الكُوْفِيُّ * (م، ٤) الإِمَامُ، الفَقِيْهُ، أَبُو سَلَمَةَ خَالِدُ بنُ سَلَمَةَ بنِ العَاصِ بنِ هِشَامِ بنِ المُغِيْرَةِ القُرَشِيُّ، المَخْزُوْمِيُّ، الكُوْفِيُّ، الفَأْفَاءُ.

(١) قال المؤلف ﵀ في " تاريخه " ٥ / ١٧٦، ١٧٩: قلت: مقت الناس الوليد لفسقه، وتأثموا من السكوت عنه وخرجوا عليه، ولم يصح عنه كفر ولا زندقة، نعم اشتهر بالخمر والتلوط. (*) طبقات ابن سعد ٦ / ٣٤٧، التاريخ الكبير ٣ / ١٥٤، الجرح والتعديل ٣ / ٣٣٤، تهذيب الكمال: ٣٥٩، تذهيب التهذيب ٣ / ٩٥، تاريخ الإسلام ٥ / ٢٣٩، ميزان الاعتدال ١ / ٦٣١، تهذيب التهذيب ٣ / ٩٥، خلاصة تذهيب الكمال ١٠١، شذرات الذهب ١ / ١٨٩.