and Kidām ibn Ḥayyān⦗1⦘ and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥassān, the two ʿAnazīs from Banū Humaym⦗2⦘, Muḥriz ibn Shihāb al-Tamīmī, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥawiyyah al-Saʿdī, likewise of Tamīm⦗3⦘. These were the men who accompanied Ḥujr and reached Muʿāwiyah with him.
Ziyād then sent two others after them: ʿUtbah ibn al-Akhnaṣ—of Banū Saʿd—and Saʿīd ibn Numrān⦗4⦘ al-Hamdānī, bringing the total to fourteen; they were all marched off to Syria.
It is reported that when Ḥujr was ushered in before Muʿāwiyah he said, “Peace be upon you, O Commander of the Believers.” Muʿāwiyah flew into a furious rage and ordered that he and his companions be executed.
Another version says that Muʿāwiyah rode out to meet them at Marj ʿAdhrāʾ.
Yet a third account states that he merely sent someone to intercept them at ʿAdhrāʾ, beneath the mountain pass of Thaniyyat al-ʿAqāb, and they were killed there.
Muʿāwiyah dispatched three men from Damascus: Hudbah ibn Fayyāḍ al-Quḍāʿī, Ḥuṣayn⦗5⦘ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kilābī, and Abū Sharīf al-Badawī⦗6⦘. They arrived in the evening, while Ḥujr and his companions spent the whole night in prayer. When they had performed the dawn prayer, the executioners put them to death. This is the most widely circulated account, and Allah knows best.
Muḥammad ibn Saʿd relates that they were first brought before Muʿāwiyah, who then sent them back, and they were killed at ʿAdhrāʾ.
Muʿāwiyah had sought advice about them when they reached Marj ʿAdhrāʾ—⦗7⦘some say they were imprisoned there—and the opinions ranged from executing them to scattering them throughout the provinces. Muʿāwiyah wrote another letter to Ziyād regarding their fate, and Ziyād advised him to kill them if he wished to secure his authority in Iraq. Muʿāwiyah therefore ordered their execution. The provincial governors pleaded for them one by one until they obtained pardons for six⦗8⦘, while six were killed, the first of whom was Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī. One man turned back and Muʿāwiyah pardoned him. Another had spoken ill of ʿUthmān, claiming he was the first to swerve from justice, and had praised ʿAlī; Muʿāwiyah sent this man to Ziyād, saying, “Of all of them you have sent me none worse than this one.” When he reached Ziyād, the latter had him buried alive in al-Nāṭif⦗9⦘—this was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥassān al-ʿAnazī⦗10⦘.