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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Bazzār Ibn Khuzaymah Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad-zuhd:397 – ʿAbdullāh > al-Walīd b. Shujāʿ b. al-Walīd > Ibn al-Mubārak > Maʿmar > al-Ṣibyān Liyaḥyá b. Zakariyyā ʿAlayhimā al-Salām Ādhhab Binā Nalʿab

The boys said to Yahya bin Zakariya, peace be upon them both, "Come, let's go and play." He asked, "Were we created for play?"

الزهد لأحمد:٣٩٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنِي الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ شُجَاعِ بْنِ الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ مَعْمَرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ الصِّبْيَانُ لِيَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَامُ اذْهَبْ بِنَا نَلْعَبْ قَالَ وَلِلَّعِبِ خُلِقْنَا؟

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