وفاة الحجاج بن يوسف

al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf died in 95 AH at Wasit, aged fifty-four. His governorship over the people lasted twenty years, according to Bakr's book. ¹

The book says that the number he had killed by execution was a hundred and twenty thousand, besides those who died in his armies and wars. It says that when he died fifty thousand men and thirty thousand women were in his prisons. ² These are figures the book transmits, and they are not checked elsewhere in it. It also says that he did not live after the killing of Sa'id ibn Jubayr more than fifteen nights. ³

al-Sallabi says that news of his death reached Qutayba in Shawwal 95 AH, after the conquest of al-Shash and Farghana, and he was grieved at his death because of the support he had received from him. ⁴

The place of death is Wasit.