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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc
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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