59 – Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd told me; Abu Sufyān al-Himyari narrated to us; I heard Abū Balj al-Fazāri say:

Al-Hajjāj b. Yūsuf once had a man brought before him—the very man about whom he had vowed that, if he ever caught him, he would put him to death. When the prisoner was ushered in, he uttered a few words, and al-Hajjāj thereupon set him free. People asked him, “What did you say?” He replied, “I said: ‘O ⦗64⦘ Mighty One, O Praiseworthy One, O Possessor of the Glorious Throne, turn away from me the evil of every stubborn tyrant.’”