456 — Al-Firyābī also informed us, saying: ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dimashqī narrated to us, saying: Al-Walīd—meaning Ibn Muslim—narrated to us, saying: Al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from al-Qāsim ibn ⦗876⦘ Hazzān, from al-Zuhrī, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “Divine decree is what holds monotheism together. Whoever affirms the oneness of Allah Most High and believes in divine decree—this is the firmest handhold, which can never break. But whoever affirms the oneness of Allah Most High yet rejects divine decree, his rejection of divine decree nullifies his monotheism.”