خبر الحسين بن منصور الحلاج

In 309 AH al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj was killed in Baghdad by order of the caliph al-Muqtadir. The sources agree on the killing and differ on the details of the charge and the punishment. ¹

Al-Tabari says that al-Hallaj was struck a thousand lashes, and that his hands and feet were cut off. ¹

Al-Suyuti says that he was killed by the judgement of the judge Abu Umar and the jurists and scholars, who held that his blood was lawful. ²

Ibn al-Athir says that the vizier Hamid ibn al-Abbas was told that al-Hallaj could bring the dead to life and that jinn served him. The vizier asked the judges and jurists, and then a decree was written permitting his blood. Ibn al-Athir quotes al-Hallaj as saying that he is a Muslim on the way of the Sunna and that he has books on this. ³

Ibn al-Athir relates that he was burned after his killing and his ashes were thrown into the Tigris, and that the head was set up in Baghdad and sent to Khurasan. Some of his companions claimed that he was not killed and that he would return after forty days. ³

What is not covered here: the views of modern scholars and other views on the case. This needs an additional source.