729 — al-Husayn ibn Umar informed us; Ahmad ibn al-Hasan informed us; Isma‘il ibn Ishaq narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us; Sufyan al-Thawri informed us, from Ubayd al-Maktab, from Mujahid, from Ibn Umar, who said:

“He screened Himself from His creation by means of four things: fire, darkness, and light. He created four things with His Hand: Adam, the Throne, the Pen, and the Garden of Eden. As for the rest of His creation, He said to it, ‘Be,’ and it was.”