12. My father and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid both said: Muhammad ibn Yahya al-`Attar and Ahmad ibn Idris both said, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn `Imran al-Ash`ari, on the authority of Ibrahim ibn Hashim, on the authority of `Ali ibn Ma`bad, on the authority of Durust, on the authority of Fudayl ibn Yasar that Abu `Abd Allah al-Sadiq said:

“Allah willed for me to be capable, and not to be the does.” The reported says: I also heard him saying that He wills, He intends, He dislikes, and He is displeased. He wills that nothing should exist in His Sovereignty without His Knowledge, and He intends similar to that. He dislikes it to be said that `He is the third of three,’ and He is displeased with the disbelief of His Servants.