415 – Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Haniʾ narrated to me; he said: Ahmad ibn Shabbuwaih related to us; he said: Sulayman told me; he said: ʿAbd Allah narrated to me from Dawud ibn Sulayman that Khalid ibn Yazid said to Sulayman ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, “You keep writing to al-Hajjaj while the people of Iraq are with him.” So Sulayman wrote to al-Hajjaj asking him about that, and al-Hajjaj said to the courier, “Perhaps Khuwaylid has been with him. Write back to him: Yesterday is a term that has elapsed, today is the time for deeds, and tomorrow is but hope.”