The Peak of Eloquence · Hadith 1253 (#Passage #62)
Chapter 17 | In response to a letter from Muawiya
وَأَمَّا طَلَبُكَ إِلَيَّ الشَّامَ، فَإِنِّي لَمْ أَكُنْ لِأُعْطِيَكَ الْيَوْمَ مَا مَنَعْتُكَ أَمْسِ.
As for your demand to me to (hand over) Syria, I cannot give you today what I denied you yesterday.
Gradings are classical jarḥ-wa-taʿdīl, name-matched to a rijāl index (not individually re-verified).