Narrated to us ʿUthmān ibn Abī Shaybah, Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb, and Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm — and the wording is that of Zuhayr — Isḥāq said: informed us, and the other two said: narrated to us Jarīr, from Manṣūr, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbaydah, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from ʿAlī, who said: We were at a funeral in Baqīʿ al-Gharqad, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to us. He sat down, and we sat around him. He had a staff with him, and he lowered his head and began to poke the ground with his staff. Then he said: "There is not one of you, not a single soul that has been breathed into life, except that Allah has written its place in Paradise or the Fire, and except that it has been written as wretched or blessed." He said: A man said: O Messenger of Allah, shall we not then rely upon our written decree and abandon deeds? He said: "Whoever is among the people of blessedness will be led to the deeds of the people of blessedness, and whoever is among the people of wretchedness will be led to the deeds of the people of wretchedness." Then he said: "Do deeds, for everyone is made easy for what he was created for. As for the people of blessedness, they are made easy for the deeds of the people of blessedness, and as for the people of wretchedness, they are made easy for the deeds of the people of wretchedness." Then he recited: "As for he who gives and fears Allah, and believes in the best, We will ease him toward ease. And as for he who is stingy and deems himself self-sufficient, and denies the best, We will ease him toward hardship."