The traditional hatred of Al-Hajjaj was envenomed by the accession of the Abbasides and this dynasty, the better to distinguish itself from the Ommiades, affected love for the Holy Family, especially Ali and his descendants, and a fanatical hatred against their oppressors.  The following table from Ibn Khaldun (Introduct. xxii.) shows that the Caliphs were cousins, which may account for their venomous family feud.

[First Version]

’Abd Manaf
|
____________|____________
|                       |
Hashim                 Abd Shams
|                       |
Abd al-Muttalib            Umayyah
|                       |
___________|__________         ____|______
|          |         |         |         |
Al-Abbas  Abdullah  Abu Talib   Harb       Abu ’l-Aus
|          |         |         |         |
Abdullah  Mohammed      |      Abu Sufyan  Al-Hakim
|          |         |         |         |
Ali   Fatimah married Ali   Mu’awiyah    Marwan
|         _____|_____    (1st Ommiade)
|         |         |
Mohammed  Al-Hasan Al-Husayn
|
Al-Saffah
(1st Abbaside)

[Second Version]

’Abd Manaf, father of Hashim and Abd Shams
   Hashim, father of Abd al-Muttalib
     Abd al-Muttalib, father of Al-Abbas, Abdullah, and Abu Talib
         Al-Abbas, father of Abdullah
             Abdullah, father of Ali
                 Ali, father of Mohammed
                    Mohammed, father of Al-Saffah (1st Abbaside)
         Abdullah, father of Mohammed
             Mohammed, father of Fatimah, who married Ali
                       (son of Abu Talib)
                Fatimah, mother of Al-Hasan and Al-Husayn
         Abu Talib, father of Ali
   Abd Shams, father of Umayyah
     Umayyah, father of Harb and Abu ’l-Aus
         Harb, father of Abu Sufyan
             Abu Sufyan, father of Mu’awiyah (1st Ommaide)
         Abu ’l-Aus, father of Al-Hakim
             Al-Hakim, father of Marwan

[FN#44] [The word here translated “invited guest” reads in the Ms.  “Mad’ur.”  In this form it is no dictionary word, but under the root “D’r” I find in the Muhit:  “wa ’l-’amatu takulu fulanun da’irun ya’ni ghalizun jafin” = the common people say such a one is “daiir,” i.e., rude, churlish.  “Mad’ur” may be a synonym and rendered accordingly:  as though thou wert a boor or clown.—­St]

[FN#45] A neat specimen of the figure anachronism.  Al-Hajjaj died in A.H. 95 (= Ad 714), and Cairo was built in A.H. 358 (= Ad 968).

[FN#46] Perfectly true in the present day.  The city was famed for intelligence and sanguinary fanaticism; and no stranger in disguise could pass through it without detection.  This ended with the massacre of 1840, which brought a new era into the Moslem East.  The men are, as a rule, fine-looking, but they seem to be all show:  we had a corps of them in the old Bash-Buzuks, who, after a month or two in camp, seemed to have passed suddenly from youth into old age.