363 — Al-Firyābī informed us, saying: Ishāq ibn Sayyār al-Nasībī narrated to us, saying: Abū Sālih ʿAbd Allah ibn Sālih narrated to us, saying: Al-Layth ibn Saʿd narrated to me, saying: ⦗783⦘ Yūnus narrated to me, from Ibn Shihāb, that ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Hunayda, the freedman of ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb, informed him, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—say:

“When Allah creates a human being, the angel charged with the wombs interjects, ‘O Lord, male or female?’ Allah Most High then communicates His decree to him. The angel then says, ‘O Lord, wretched or blessed?’ Allah communicates His decree to him. He then writes between the person’s eyes everything that lies ahead for him, even the affliction that will befall him.”