He then convened the jurists, who unanimously pronounced him guilty of unbelief and zandaqa, branding him a sorcerer and charlatan. Two devout men who had formerly followed him recanted ⦗1⦘: one was Abū ʿAlī Hārūn ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Awārajī ⦗2⦘, the other a man known as al-Dabbās. They related many of his scandals and the falsehood, depravity, imposture, and sorcery to which he was summoning people. The wife of his son Sulaymān was likewise brought in, and she too recounted numerous disgraces. Among them was that he attempted to approach her sexually while she was asleep; when she awoke he said, “Rise for prayer,” though his real intent had been intercourse. He also ordered her daughter ⦗3⦘ to prostrate to him. She replied, “Should a human being prostrate to another human?” He answered, “Yes—there is a god in heaven and a god on earth.” He then told her to take from beneath a reed mat ⦗4⦘ whatever she wished ⦗5⦘, and under it she found a large number of gold dinars scattered about ⦗6⦘.

While he was imprisoned in the house of Ḥāmid ibn al-ʿAbbās, a young servant entered carrying a tray of food for him. The boy found that al-Hallāj had filled the entire room from ceiling to floor; terrified ⦗7⦘, he dropped the tray and its contents and returned feverish, remaining ill for several days ⦗8⦘.

At the final session ⦗9⦘ the judge Abū ʿUmar Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf was present, and al-Hallāj was brought in. A book seized from the homes of some of his followers was also produced, and in it was written: “Whoever intends the pilgrimage but cannot undertake it should build in his own house a chamber untouched by any impurity and allow no one to enter it. When the days of ḥajj arrive, let him fast for three days and circumambulate it just as the Kaʿbah is circumambulated; then let him perform in his home all that the pilgrims do in Mecca, and afterward summon thirty orphans and feed them from his own food,”