Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1551
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ، قَالَ: أخبرنا جَعْفَرٌ، قَالَ: سمعت أَبَا بَكْرِ بْنُ دَاوُدَ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ أَبِي
يَقُولُ: " مَنْ كَتَبَ الْحَدِيثَ لِنَفْسِهِ لَمْ يُجَوِّدْ، وَمَنْ كَتَبَ لِلنَّاسِ جَوَّدَ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbdillāh informed us, he said: Jaʿfar informed us, he said: I heard Abū Bakr b. Dāwūd say: I heard my father say
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He would say: "Whoever writes hadith for himself does not do it well, and whoever writes for the people does it well."
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