5. Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn al-Walid said: Muhammad ibn al-Hasan alSaffar said, on the authority of Muhammad ibn `Isa ibn `Ubayd, on the authority of Sulayman ibn Ja`far al-Ja`fari that Al-Rida said:

“The Divine Will and the Divine Intent are part of the Attributes of Action. So whoever claims that Allah, the Exalted, has always been the Intending Willer, then he is not a (true) monotheists.”