20 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: ʿAli ibn Harb wrote to me, and al-Qasim ibn Yazid narrated to us, and Qays ibn Muslim al-Jadali narrated. He said: ʿAtaʾ al-Khurasani would not rise from his gathering until he had said:

“O Allah, grant us such certainty in You that the calamities of this world become light for us; so that we may know that nothing befalls us except what You have written for us, and that none of this provision reaches us except what You have apportioned.”