2 – ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī Maryam told us, from ʿAlī ibn Qādim, who said: I heard Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj say that Ziyād declared,

“I have never praised myself for any matter in which I tied a weak knot of resolve, nor have I ever blamed myself for a matter in which I tied a knot of firm decisiveness, and I have never entertained a plan and then spoken of it to someone else before I had actually carried it out.”

ʿAlī added: At this, Abū Maryam ʿAbd al-Ghaffār ibn al-Qāsim exclaimed, “Woe to you! Do you relate such words from Ziyād?”