When Qanbar was brought before him, al-Hajjaj asked: “Are you Qanbar?

When Qanbar was brought before him, al-Hajjaj asked: “Are you Qanbar?” He answered: “Yes, it is I.” Al-Hajjaj asked: “Are you called Abu Hamdan?” He answered: “Yes, I am.” Al-Hajjaj asked: “Ali Ibn Abi Talib was your master, was he not?” Qanbar answered: “God is my Master and Ali was my benefactor.” Al-Hajjaj then asked Qanbar to declare his disavowal of the religion of Imam Ali (a), but Qanbar asked: “If I do, will you find me a religion better than his?” Out of his anger, al-Hajjaj told Qanbar that he would kill him and that he might choose the kind of killing that he would inevitably encounter.

Qanbar said: “I give you this right of choice. You should choose for me.” Al-Hajjaj wondered: “Why is that?” Qanbar answered: “That is because I will certainly kill you in the same way you are going to kill me. Amirul- Mu'minin foretold me that I will be slain wrongfully.” Hence, al-Hajjaj ordered to slay him[^5]. To Abu al-Aswad ad-Du’ali[^6], Muawiya sent candy as a present so as to make him leave the wing of Amirul-Mu'minin (a) and join his.

A little girl of Abu al- Aswad took a bite from that candy and swallowed. His father shouted at her to throw that bite away, and told her that candy was poison sent to them by Muawiya to take them away from their love and support for Ali Ibn Abi Talib and the Ahlul-Bayt (a). The little girl tried her best to vomit that bite until she could. She, then, said: “God may condemn Muawiya. Does he want us to leave the purified master through sending us such saffroned candy?

Woe to him who sends and who will eat such candy.” She then composed: Son of Hind[^7], is it by means of saffroned candy You want us to sell our religion and Islam to you? God forbid it! This will never occur so long as our master is Amirul-Mu'minin Rashid al-Hajari was one of the intimate friends of Imam Ali (a). Ziyad the cursed (the governor of Kufa in the reign of Yazid Ibn Muawiya; the second Umayyad caliph) ordered to arrest him.

When he was brought before him, Ziyad asked: “What did your friend (i.e. Amirul-Mu'minin) foretell you regarding our deed to you?” Rashid answered: “He foretold that you would cut my hands and legs and would crucify me.” Ziyad said: “By God, I will belie this foretelling.” Hence, he ordered them to set Rashid free. When Rashid was about to leave, Ziyad shouted: “Take him back to me. The best thing that I see as punishment for him is that which was foretold by his friend.