343 — Al-Firyābī informed us, saying: Safwān ibn Sālih narrated to us, saying: Al-Walīd ibn Muslim narrated to us, saying: Ibn Lahīʿa narrated to us, from Abū Hāniʾ, from Abū Abd al-Rahmān ⦗764⦘ al-Hubulī, from Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-Ās, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Allah Most High wrote the decrees of creation fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth, while His Throne was upon the water.”