Abu Mikhnaf and other Shia narrators—
Ibn Ziyad then said to him, “I am going to kill you.”
Muslim replied, “Is that so?”
“Yes.”
“Then allow me to make a bequest to some of my kin.”
“Make your bequest.”

Muslim looked at those present, among whom was ʿUmar ibn Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas, and said,
“O ʿUmar! There is a tie of kinship between you and me. I have a request of you, and it is private—come with me to one side of the palace so that I may tell you.”
ʿUmar refused to rise until Ibn Ziyad gave permission. When leave was granted, he stood and stepped a short distance away, still near Ibn Ziyad.

Muslim said, “I owe in Kufa a debt of 700 dirhams; pay it on my behalf. Ask Ibn Ziyad to let you take my body so that you may bury it. And send word to al-Ḥusayn, for I had written to him that the people were with him, and I think he is already on his way.”

ʿUmar returned and conveyed to Ibn Ziyad what Muslim had said. Ibn Ziyad granted all of it and added, “As for al-Ḥusayn, if he turns away from us we shall not pursue him, but if he comes toward us we will not hold back from him.”

Ibn Ziyad then ordered that Muslim ibn ʿAqil be taken to the roof of the palace. He ascended while proclaiming Allah’s greatness, declaring His oneness, glorifying Him, seeking His forgiveness, sending blessings upon Allah’s angels, and saying, “O Allah, judge between us and the people who attacked us and abandoned us.”

A man called Bukayr ibn Ḥumrān struck off his head, hurled the head down from the roof, and threw the body after it. Ibn Ziyad next ordered that Hāniʾ ibn ʿUrwah al-Madhḥijī be brought; his head was struck off in the sheep market and he was hung up in a place in Kufa called al-Kunāsa.

A poet composed an elegy on that event:

If you do not know what death is, then look— at Hāniʾ in the market and the son of ʿAqīl.
The ruler’s command befell them both, and by morning they were tales on every road.
To a champion whose face the sword had crushed, and another who lies dead, falling from the roof, ⦗1⦘
you see a body whose hue death has altered and blood that has flowed in every channel.
If you will not avenge your brother, then live debased—as wanton slaves content with a trifle. ⦗2⦘

Ibn Ziyad also put to death others along with them ⦗3⦘.

He then sent their heads to Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah in Syria, together with a letter describing what had taken place.

One day before leaving Basra, ʿUbayd Allah had delivered to its people an eloquent sermon, exhorting them, warning them, and cautioning them against discord, turmoil, and division—as related by Hishām ibn al-Kalbī and Abu Mikhnaf from al-Ṣaʾqab ibn Zuhayr.