657 — Al-Firyābī also informed us, saying: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, saying: Al-Mughīrah ibn Abd al-Rahmān informed us, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—said: “When Allah—Glorious and Exalted is He—had completed the creation, He wrote in a book, which is with Him above the Throne: ‘My mercy has prevailed over My wrath.’”