Abdul Waahid ibn Sulaym narrated: I came to Makkah where I met Ata ibn Abu Rabah. I said to him, “O Abu Muhammad, certain people at our place deny the Divine decree.” Ata said, “I had met Walid ibn Ubadah ibn Samit who said that his father narrated to him that he heard Allah’s Messenger say, “The first thing Allah created was the pen. He said to it, ‘Write down’. So it recorded everything that would take place till eternity.”
[Ahmed 22768]