776 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said, “Abu ʿAmir al-ʿAdawi related to me; he said, ‘Hammad ibn Salamah informed us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from ʿUrwah, that al-Zubayr—may Allah have mercy on him—sent a force to Egypt. Someone said to him, “There is plague there.” He replied, “I have come for nothing other than the thrust of the spear and the plague.”’”}