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bayhaqi:15979Abū Aḥmad ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Mihrajānī > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Muzakkī > Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-ʿAbdī > Ibn Bukayr > Mālik > Yaḥyá b. Saʿīd > Marwān b. al-Ḥakam Katab > Muʿāwiyah b. Abū Sufyān > Utī Bimajnūn Qatal a man Fakatab Ilayh Muʿāwiyah

[Machine] That you understand him and do not underestimate him, for he is not lacking in intelligence.  

البيهقي:١٥٩٧٩أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو أَحْمَدَ عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْمِهْرَجَانِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْمُزَكِّي ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْعَبْدِيُّ ثنا ابْنُ بُكَيْرٍ قَالَ قَالَ مَالِكٌ حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَنَّ مَرْوَانَ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ كَتَبَ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ أَنَّهُ أُتِيَ بِمَجْنُونٍ قَتَلَ رَجُلًا فَكَتَبَ إِلَيْهِ مُعَاوِيَةُ

أَنِ اعْقِلْهُ وَلَا تُقِدْ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَجْنُونٍ قَوَدٌ