"I went to ʿImrān ibn Ḥuṣayn one day, and he said: O Abū al-Aswad - and he mentioned the ḥadīth - that a man from Juhaynah or Muzaynah came to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: O Messenger of Allāh! What do you think about what people are doing today and striving for, is it something decreed for them or something that has passed in a previous decree, or is it something they are facing that their Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) brought to them and for which the argument has been established against them? He said: Rather, it is something decreed for them and has passed upon them. He said: Then why do they work, O Messenger of Allāh? He said: "and he mentioned it." Ibn Jarīr also narrated it in his "Tafsīr" (30/135) through the route of Ṣafwān ibn ʿĪsá and Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl who said: ʿAzrah ibn Thābit narrated it. I said: And this isnād is authentic, all its men are trustworthy, the men of Muslim. Ibn Yaʿmar's name is also Yaḥyá. The ḥadīth was also narrated by Muslim (8/48-49) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (18/223/557) through the route of ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar who narrated it from ʿAzrah ibn Thābit in a similar manner, without the first part of the ḥadīth of the translation. Al-Suyūṭī mentioned it in "al-Jāmiʿ" in a summarized form with the wording: "Whomever Allāh created for one of the two abodes, He guided him to its work." And he said: "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in 'al-Kabīr' from ʿImrān." I said: And it was not mentioned by al-Sahmī in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" at all, perhaps because Muslim included it as we mentioned. It is with al-Ṭabarānī through the route of ʿAwn ibn ʿAmārah who narrated it from ʿAzrah. I said: And ʿAwn is weak, but he is strengthened by Ṣafwān and Abū ʿĀṣim mentioned earlier. And the statement of al-Munāwī in "al-Taysīr": "And its isnād is ḥasan." is a clear error.