so al Hajjaaj told him: Whatis your name (and he knew his name well)?

He answered: Sa`eed bin Jubayr.

So Al Hajjaaj responded to him saying: Nay,you are Shaqiy bin Kusayr. (Al-Hajjaaj is playingwith words here: Sa`eed means happy and Shaqiy means unhappy, wretched. Jubayrmeans one who splints broken bones, and Kusayr one who breaks them.)

Sa`eed told him: My mother knew better whenshe named me.

So Al Hajjaaj told him: You are wretched (shaqayta)and your mother is wretched (shaqiyat - Al Hajjaaj isagain playing with words, referring to Shaqiyy - unhappy/wretched).

Then he told him: By Allah, I will replace yourdunya with a blazing Fire. Sa`eed said, If I knew you could do it, Iwould take you as a god.

So al Hajjaaj told him, I have gold andwealth. Bags of gold and silver were brought and spread before Sa`eed bin Jubayr inorder to try him.

Sa`eed bin Jubayr said: O Hajjaaj, if yougathered it to be seen and heard in show-off, and to use it to avert others fromthe way of Allah, then by Allah, it will not avail you (lan yughneeka)against Him in any way.

So Al Hajjaaj said: I have a femaleslave-singer (al-mughanniyah - al-Hajjaajcontinues to play with words, responding in mockery to Sa`eed's words 'lanyughneeka/it will not avail you' with a word that has the same triliteralroot).

He told her: Sing for me andentertain me. Sa`eed bin Jubayr cried, and Al Hajjaaj told him: >Areyou crying out of joy?

So Sa`eed told him: By Allah, I do not cry outof joy, but I cry for the slave girl that was subjected to other than what shewas created for, for she was not created to sing, and `ood (musical instrument)was not built but for disobedience of Allah.

Al Hajjaaj said: Take him and turn him toother than the Qiblah. By Allah, O Said bin Jubayr, I will kill you with akilling with which I have not killed any of the people.

Sa`eed said: O Hajjaaj choose for yourselfwhatever killing you want, by Allah you will not kill me with a killing exceptthat Allah will kill you with a like of it, so choose for yourself whateverkilling you like.

Al Hajjaaj said: Turn him (wallooh)to other than the Qiblah.

Sa`eed said: Wherever you [might] turn(tuwalloo), there is the Face of Allah. [Qur'an, 2:115] Al

Hajjaaj said, Put him under the earth.

Sa`eed said: From it [the earth]We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract youanother time. [Qur'an, 20:55] The Death of Al-Hajjaaj

Al-Hajjaaj said: Kill him.

Sa`eed said: Laa ilaha ill Allah MuhammadunRasulullah. Take it, O Hajjaaj, until you meet me with it tomorrow before Allah.O Allah, do not give him authority over anyone after me! O One who cuts up thetyrants, cut up al Hajjaaj! - and in the same gathering ablister appeared on Al-Hajjaaj's hand and he became enraged like a bull for awhole month - he couldn't sleep from the pain and fatigue, nor could he eat anddrink. Al-Hajjaaj said about himself: No night haspassed except that I saw myself swimming in blood and no night has passed exceptthat I saw as if al Qiyamah took place and that Allah took me to account andthat I was killed for whoever I killed with one killing, except Sa`eed binJubayr - Allah punished me for killing him with seventy killings.

Allah caused him to die after a month. He is considered wretched andmiserable, although he belonged to Muslims. This is because he didn't know theguidance or uprightness and because he couldn't make sense out of his lifemission.