When Ubaydullah saw Hani...

When Ubaydullah saw Hani, (Irshad) he said, “The traitor has come in walking on his own feet.” When Hani was brought near Ubaydullah, Shurayh was sitting next to him, and Ubaydullah recited the couplets: “I desire him to remain alive, but he desires to kill me.” (Kamil) Ubaydullah had been kind to Hani and hence he told him as to what had happened. Ubaydullah said, “Woe O Hani!

What is this mischief which has crept up in your house against the commander of the faithful (referred to Yazid) and for the Muslims? You have brought Muslim and have sheltered him in your house and are gathering manpower and arms for him, and you think that I am unaware of these things”? Hani replied, “I have not done any thing.” Ubaydullah said that he had done it, then when their argument increased, Ubaydullah called the retainer (Ma’qal) whom he had sent as his spy.

He came and stood facing Hani, and Ubaydullah asked him if he knew him to which he replied in the affirmative and Hani under­stood that he was Ubaydullah’s spy and had conveyed to him all their re­ports. When he…