Thus when the pillar was raised around him...

Thus when the pillar was raised around him, Muhammad bin Ibrahim bin al-Hasan, was alive.[^6] One day, al-Mansur said, “By God, I do not find anyone as obedient as al-Hajjaj was to the progeny of Marwan.” Once, al-Musayyab got up and said, “My master, al-Hajjaj is nothing compared to us, for God has elevated our Prophet (S) to the highest position among His creation, and yet when you order us, we unhesitatingly carry out your orders to kill the Prophet’s progeny.

Tell us; are we not more obedient to you than al-Hajjaj was to the progeny of Marwan?”[^7] Al-Mansur arrested Ibrahim bin al-Hasan bin al-Hasan bin Ali ibn Abi Talib along with Abdullah bin al-Hasan, Abu Bakr bin al-Hasan, and his brothers Abbas, Abdullah, Hasan, and Ja’far, and Hamza bin Ishaq bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Ja’far. They were kept in confinement in Medina for three years.

Thereafter, they were shifted to a dark dungeon in az-Zabadah where they all died one after another.[^8] Allama Muhammad Jawad wrote, “According to al-Mansur’s own admission, he had…