أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ شُجَاعٍ ، حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ شُعَيْبِ بْنِ شَابُورٍ ، أَخْبَرَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي السَّائِبِ ، عَنْ رَجَاءِ بْنِ حَيْوَةَ ، أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُ، قَالَ : كَتَبَ هِشَامُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ إِلَى عَامِلِهِ أَنْ يَسْأَلَنِي عَنْ حَدِيثٍ، قَالَ رَجَاءٌ :" فَكُنْتُ قَدْ نَسِيتُهُ لَوْلَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ عِنْدِي مَكْتُوبًا "

Al-Walid bin Shuja’ told us, Muhammad bin Shuaib bin Shabur told us, Al-Walid bin Sulayman bin Abi Al-Sa’ib told us, on the authority of Raja’ bin Haywa, that he narrated it. He said: Hisham bin Abdul-Malik wrote to his employee to ask me about a hadith. He said, hopefully: “So I had forgotten it.” “Unless it had been written with me.”