Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 420-533b
✧ Abdullah b. Abbas
"عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: خُذُوا الْحِكْمَةَ مِمَّنْ سَمِعْتُمُوهَا؛ فَإِنَّهُ قَدْ يَقُولُ الْحِكْمَةَ غَيْرُ الْحَكِيم، وَتَكُونُ الرَّمْيَةُ غَيْرَ رَامٍ () ".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn ʿAbbās
- Khudhūā al-Ḥikmah Mimman Samiʿtumūhā Faʾinnah Qad
- al-Ḥikmah Ghayr
Machine translation, not reviewed
"From Ibn Abbas, who said: Take wisdom from whoever you hear it from, for a non-wise person may say wisdom, and an arrow may be shot by one who is not an archer."
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Notes
العسكرى في الأمثال
machine translationAl-ʿAskarī, in al-Amthāl.
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