Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37868 — Mutarrif bin al-Shikhkhir

It is narrated from Thabit that Mutarrif said: "I looked at the beginning of this matter, from whom it is, and that beginning is from Allah Almighty. I looked at upon whom its end will rest, and that too rests upon Allah Almighty. And I reflected on what its milak (mainstay) is, and its mainstay is supplication."