Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Khaythamah says: The Angel of Death came to Hazrat Sulaiman bin Dawood (peace be upon him), and you (peace be upon him) had a relationship of friendship with him. So you said to him: "You are strange! You enter a house and seize the souls of all the household members, while you leave the household members of the adjacent (house) (alive and well), not seizing the soul of even one of them (what is the matter with this)?" The Angel of Death replied: "I do not know anything about whose soul I am to seize. I am (standing humbly) under the Throne, then a slip (of paper) is dropped towards me, in which the names (of those whose souls I am to seize) are written."