He used to narrate that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and He commanded it to write everything that would come to be."
أنه كان يحدث أن رسول الله ﷺ قال: إن أول ما خلق الله القلم، وأمره أن يكتب كل شيء يكون.
Bazzar narrated it, Abu Yaala (2329) narrated it from Ahmad bin Jameel Marwazi, who said, Abdullah bin Mubarak told us, from Rabah bin Zayd, from Umar bin Habib Makki, from Qasim bin Abu Bazza, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he related the same. Abdullah bin Ahmad also reported it through this same route in Sunnah (854). Bazzar also narrated it, and Haythami said in Majma (7/190), "Its narrators are trustworthy." Ibn Abu Asim reported it in Sunnah (108) through the route of Ibn Mubarak.Bayhaqi said in Qadar wal-Qadar (1/192), Abu Ali said, "No one but Umar bin Habib traced this back with a full chain from Qasim, and he is the Makki whose hadiths are collected."I say, Umar bin Habib is the Makki, and he is trustworthy and virtuous. Scholars have affirmed his reliability, so his being the sole transmitter does not harm the narration, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.