16. `Abd al-Walid ibn Muhammad ibn `Abdus al-Naysabur al-`Attar said: `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Qutaybah al-Naysaburi said, on the authority of Hamdan ibn Sulayman that

I wrote to al-Rida asking him whether the actions of the servants are created or uncreated? So he wrote back, “The actions of the servants were decreed through the Knowledge of Allah, the Might and High, two thousand years before the creation of the servants.”