Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shirāzī, the ḥadīth master (ḥāfiẓ), informed us; Abu Saʿīd—namely ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥbūr al-Tamīmī—narrated to us; Abu Bakr—namely Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Mahdī—narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us; Mālik narrated to us, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayra:
From the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “When Allah completed the creation, He wrote a decree which He keeps with Him upon His Throne: ‘My mercy has prevailed over My wrath.’ ”
Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it (1) through the chain of Shuʿayb ibn Shuʿayb ibn Isḥāq, from Zayd ibn Yaḥyā, from Mālik.
In that same year there died: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāma the ascetic (2), father of Shaykh Muwaffaq al-Dīn; Salāma ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣadr; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Dārānī (3) in Damascus; Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn al-Faḍl al-Warrāq; ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, ruler of the Maghrib (4); Kamāl (5), daughter of the ḥadīth scholar ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Samarkandī; the master of chancery prose Sadīd al-Dawla Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Anbārī, a little over eighty years old (6); Wahbat Allah ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-Qaṭṭān al-Mattūthī, one of the poets, aged eighty (7); and the leading Shāfiʿī authority in Yemen, Abu