Some mercenaries and adulators suggested to al-Mughira to kill Hijr.

Some mercenaries and adulators suggested to al-Mughira to kill Hijr. However he refused to respond to them, saying: “I dislike to start with the good ones of this city and shed their blood. They will be happy with that, and I shall be unhappy. Mu’awiya will be mighty in the world, and al-Mughira will be low on the Day of Resurrection.” [^1] Al-Isaba, vol. 1, p. 313. Al-Mughira’s retinue insisted on him as to the affair of Hijr, so he responded to them with the response of an…