Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32644 — Reports on talk about rulers

Al-A'mash said: I saw Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla, whom al-Hajjaj had had flogged and made to stand at the door of the mosque. He said: Then they began saying to him: "Curse the liars." He began to say: "May Allah Almighty curse the liars." Then, after a short pause, he would say: "Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) and al-Mukhtar bin Abi Ubayd." From his speaking after being silent, I realised that he did not mean them.