Sahih Ibn Hibban 7136

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: “Do you know Syriac well?” I said: “No.” He said: “Then learn it, for letters come to us.” He [Zayd] said: “So I learned it in seventeen days.”

Notes

• قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ كَانَتْ تَأْتِيهِ كُتُبٌ لَا يَشْتَهِي أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا مَنْ يَثِقُ بِهِ «

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Narrators

1. 1
   Zayd b. Thābit al-Anṣārī

   Famous Companion, scribe of the revelationd. 45 AH, also said: 40 AH, also said: 42 AH, also said: 43 AH, also said: 48 AH, also said: 51 AH, also said: 52 AH, also said: 54 AH, also said: 55 AH, also said: 56 AH
   زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي مشهور ، كاتب الوحي
   عن
2. 2
   Thābit b. ʿUbayd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 111 and 120 AH
   ثَابِتِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Jarīr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
   جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Yūsuf b. Mūsā

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. 253 AH
   يُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَىصدوق
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm, freed slave of Thaqīf

   d. 313 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Ibn Ḥibbān

   d. 354 AH
   ابن حبان

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