1240 — Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Qasim informed us; he said: Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Zubayr informed us; he said: Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Anbas narrated to us; he said: Ya‘la ibn Ubayd narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu al-Hajjaj al-Azdi, who said: I asked Salman, “What is belief in the divine decree?” He replied: “It is to know that whatever befell you could not have missed you, and whatever missed you could not have befallen you.”