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ahmad-zuhd:1257ʿAbdullāh from my father > ʿAffān > Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān > Baʿḍ Mashyakhatinā > ʿĀmir b. ʿAbdullāh Innamā Ajidunī Āsaf > al-Baṣrah Liʾarbaʿ Khiṣāl Tajāwub Muʾadhhinīhā And Ẓamaʾ al-Hawājir Waliʾan Bihā Ikhwānī

[Machine] "And because in it is my homeland."  

الزهد لأحمد:١٢٥٧حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ حَدَّثَنَا بَعْضُ مَشْيَخَتِنَا قَالَ قَالَ عَامِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ إِنَّمَا أَجِدُنِي آسَفُ عَلَى الْبَصْرَةِ لِأَرْبَعِ خِصَالٍ تَجَاوُبُ مُؤَذِّنِيهَا وَظَمَأُ الْهَوَاجِرِ؛ وَلِأَنَّ بِهَا إِخْوَانِي؛

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