Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 35615 — Campaigning with unjust rulers

Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid al-Nakha'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I said to my father: O father, did you take part in jihad during the rule of al-Hajjaj? He said: O my son, I have met people who were harsher than you in the matter of al-Hajjaj, yet even so they did not abandon jihad. And if people had come to hold the opinion you hold, the land tax (kharaj) would not have been paid.