فإذا أتاك كتابي هذا فاهدم بناءه، واحلل لواءه. وكان على شرطة قتيبة فعزله. وولى الضّبيّ عمّ مسعود بن الخطاب. كتاب الحجاج إلى قوم يفسدون في الأرض  وبلغ الحجاج أن قوما من الأعراب يفسدون الطريق
When you receive this letter of mine, demolish his house and untie his banner. Wakic was head of Qutayba’s police, so the latter deposed him and appointed in his place al-Dabbi, the uncle of Mas'ud ibn al-Khattab. Al-Hajjaj’s letter to a group doing evil in the world Al-Hajjaj heard that a group of bedouins were committing highway robbery