182 — Ibn Shāhīn narrated to us, saying: Abū Hishām al-Rifāī narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn al-Fudayl narrated to us, saying: Atā narrated to us, from Abū al-Duhā, from Ibn Abbās, who said: “The first thing Allah Most High created was the Pen. He said, ‘Write.’ It asked, ‘What shall I write?’ He said, ‘Write all that will occur until the Day of Resurrection.’ Then He created the nūn (great fish) and pressed the earth down upon its back. That is His saying: ‘Nūn. By the Pen and what they inscribe’ [al-Qalam: 1].”