Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 38791 — the first to do a thing, and who did

A man from the army of Muslim bin Uqbah relates: When I came to Madinah, I entered the mosque of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and prayed alongside Abd al-Malik bin Marwan. Abd al-Malik said to me: "Are you from this army?" I said: "Yes." He said: "May your mother lose you! Do you know whom you are going to fight? You are going to fight the first child born in the Islamic state. You are going to fight the son of the disciple of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him)). You are going to fight the son of Sayyidah Asma (may Allah be pleased with her), the one of the two belts. You are going to fight the one whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave tahnik. By Allah, if you go to him by day, you will find him fasting, and if you go to him by night, you will find him standing in prayer. If all the people of the earth were to agree upon killing him, Allah Almighty would throw them all on their faces into Hell." The man said: Only a few days had passed when Abd al-Malik was made caliph. He sent us to kill Sayyiduna Abdullah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him), and we killed him.