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Al-Hajjaj got to Kufa. He was masked. He went up the pulpit. He kept silent for a while. Then he removed the mask and addressed the Muslims:
Iraqis! Disobedient! Hypocrites!
He abused them and said:
Abid al Malik bin Marwan has given me a whip and a sword! The whip has dropped! The sword has remained!
Namely, Abid al-Malik ordered al-Hajjaj to kill and torture the Iraqis! The whip was used for torturing. The sword was used for killing.
The time of terrorism started. He began killing and imprisoning. He killed many companions. Kumail bin Ziyad was among them.
Along his rule al-Hajjaj killed one hundred and twenty thousand men and thirty thousand women. There were children in his prisons, too.