He said: “What has prevented you from welcoming me in the usual way of welcome.

He said: “What has prevented you from welcoming me in the usual way of welcome.” Saeed bin Ubadah said, “Lack of mounts, poverty, hard times and your favoritism to others have prevented us.” Muawiyah said in a mocking way, “Why do you not use the camels of Medina?” Saeed replied in such a sharp logic that it pierced like an arrow, “We slaughtered them on the day of Badr, the day we killed (your brother) Hanzalah bin Abu Sufyan.” [1] Muawiyah’s policy was aimed that hunger should spread in Medina and people should be deprived from gifts and endowments.

Abdullah bin Zubair wrote to Yazid in his letter: “By my life what you hold in your hand from our rights, you do not give a small part of it and you deny a great part of it…” Muawiyah ordered the central government authority in Medina to increase the price of essential commodities so that hunger and deprivation increases. Yazid has mentioned this in his letter to the people of Medina and promised them good behavior if they submitted to his rulership.

In that letter he says: “They have my covenant that I shall fix the price of wheat same as the wheat in our possession and the allowances that they claim were stopped during Muawiyah’s time shall be…