1090—Ahmad ibn Ubayd informed us. He said: Ali ibn Abdullah ibn Mubashshir informed us. He said: Jabir ibn Kurdi narrated to us. He said: Yazid narrated to us. He said: Sa'id informed us, from Abu Bishr, from Sa'id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was asked about the children of the polytheists. ⦗675⦘ He said: “Allah, when He created them, knew best what they would have done.”

It was transmitted by al-Bukhari and Muslim.