Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-3467b
"عَنْ قَتَادَةَ قَالَ: سَمِعَ عُمَرُ بْنُ الخَطَّابِ رَجُلًا يَتْبَعُ القَصَصَ، فَقَالَ لَه: أَتُحْسِنُ سُورَةَ يُوسُفَ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ (قَالَ): () إقْرَأهَا؛ فَقَرَأهَا حَتَّى بَلَغَ: {نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ الْقَصَصِ} ( )، فَقالَ عُمَرُ: أتُرِيدُ أَحْسَن مِنْ أحْسَنِ القَصَصِ؟ ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Qatādah
- ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb a man Yatbaʿ al-Qaṣaṣ
- Lah Atuḥsin Sūrah Yūsuf
- Qraʾhā Faqaraʾhā Ḥattá
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Qatadah, who said: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab heard a man who follows storytellers, and he said to him: 'Do you recite Surah Yusuf well?' He said: 'Yes.' (He said): 'Recite it.' He recited it until he reached: {We relate to you the best of stories} (12:3). 'Umar said: 'Do you want something better than the best of stories?'"
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Notes
[كر] ابن عساكر في تاريخه
machine translation[Kar] Ibn ʿAsākir, in his Tārīkh.
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