Recognition, Explanation, Evidence, and Guidance

16. `Abd al-Walid ibn Muhammad ibn `Abdus al-Naysabur al-`Attar رضي الله عنه said: `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Qutaybah al-Naysaburi said, on the authority of Hamdan ibn Sulayman that I wrote to al-Rida عليه السلام asking him whether the actions of the servants are created or uncreated? So he عليه السلام 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.”