(5) Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Sa’eed narrated from Ali bin al-Hasan from Muhammad bin Khalid al-Assamm from Abdullah bin Bukayr from Tha’laba bin Maymoon from Zurara from Hamran bin A’yun that Abu Ja’far al-Baqir had said when talking about this verse, “Then He decreed a term; and there is a term named with Him:” “They are two terms; one is inevitable and one is pending.” Hamran asked him: “What is the inevitable one?” He said: “It is a thing that has been determined by the will of Allah.” Hamran said: “I hope that the term of as-Sufyani is of the pending ones.” Abu Ja’far al-Baqir said: “No, it is not. By Allah, it is of the inevitable ones.”