7. My father said: Ahmad ibn Idris said: Muhammad ibn Ahmad said, on the authority of Yusuf ibn al-Harith, on the authority of Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-`Arzami, on the authority of his father `Abd al-Rahman who eliminated the chain of transmission to the person who said I heard the Messenger of Allah say:

“Allah decreed the destinies fifty thousand years before He created the heavens and the earth.”