Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32647 — Reports on talk about rulers

Rabi' bin Abi Salih said: When Sa'id bin Jubayr came from Makkah to Kufah, so that he could be taken to al-Hajjaj at Wasit, three or four of us came to him and we found him sitting in a heap of wood. We sat with him and one of our men wept. Sa'id asked him: "What makes you weep?" He said: "I am weeping over your calamity." He said: "Do not weep, for it was already in the knowledge of Allah that this would happen." Then he recited: "No calamity strikes on the earth or among yourselves except that it is written in the Preserved Tablet before We bring it into being. Indeed, that is easy for Allah Almighty." [Al-Hadid: 22]