It is narrated from Makhul that he said: I was with Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) when al-Hajjaj set up the catapult against the Ka'bah and martyred Sayyiduna Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with them both). Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) strongly condemned this act and said things which al-Hajjaj disliked hearing, so al-Hajjaj ordered that he be killed, and a man from Syria struck him a blow. When al-Hajjaj came to visit him, Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "You are the one who has killed me, and now you come to visit me?! Allah suffices as judge between me and you."