13 – Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn Hāniʾ narrated to me; he said: Aḥmad ibn Shabbūyah narrated to me; he said: Sulaymān narrated to me; he said: … from Dāwud ibn Sulaymān, that Khālid ibn Yazīd said to ʿAbd al-Malik, “You continually write to al-Ḥajjāj while the people of Iraq are with him … he is asking him about yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” So ʿAbd al-Malik wrote to al-Ḥajjāj, asking about that, and he said to the courier, “Did he send you …?” He then wrote back to him: “Yesterday is a term that has ended, today is action, and tomorrow is hope.”