English translation
(1). 3319. 'Abdul-Wāhid bin Sulaim said: "I arrived in Makkah and met 'Aṭā' bin Abī Rabāh. I said: 'O Abū Muḥammad! Some people with us speak about Al-Qadar.' 'Aṭā' said: 'I met Al-Walīd bin 'Ubādah bin Aṣ-Ṣāmit and he said: "My father narrated to me, he said: 'I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saying: "Verily the first of what Allāh created was the Pen. He said to it: "Write." So it wrote what will be forever.'" (Sahīh) [Abū 'Eisā said:] There is a story along with this Hadīth. [He said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣahīh Gharīb, there is something about it fromIbn ‘Abbās.
