[1] The detail of this incident is that one day al-Ḥajjāj stood up for saying prayers when a dung-beetle advanced towards him. al-Ḥajjāj held out his hand to stop him but he bit him whereby his hand got swollen and eventually he died of it. Ibn Abi’l-Ḥadīd has written that “al-Wadhāḥah” means the dung that remains sticking to the tail of an animal, and this surname is intended to disgrace him.