[Machine] For me, the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , interested in learning Syriac? Verily, books in the Syriac language come to me." I said, "No." He said, "Then learn it." So I learned it in seventeen days.
لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ تُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ؟ إِنَّهَا تَأْتِينِي كُتُبٌ قَالَ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَتَعَلَّمْهَا فَتَعَلَّمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا
[Machine] "To me, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Do you understand Syriac?'. I said, 'No'. He said, 'Learn it, for indeed it is coming to us in books.' He said, 'So I learned it in seventeen days.' Al-A'mash said, 'Books would come to him that no one would desire to look at except for those who trusted him.'"
لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَتُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ؟ » قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَتَعَلَّمْهَا فَإِنَّهُ تَأْتِينَا كُتُبٌ قَالَ فَتَعَلَّمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةِ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ كَانَتْ تَأْتِيهِ كُتُبٌ لَا يَشْتَهِي أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا مَنْ يَثِقُ بِهِ «
[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, "There are books that I do not like anyone to read. Will you be able to learn them and improve your character?" I said, "No." He said, "Then learn them." So I learned them in seventeen days, the wording of the hadith from Ibn al-Fadl.
قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ تَأْتِينِي كُتُبٌ لَا أُحِبُّ أَنْ يَقْرَأَهَا أَحَدٌ فَتُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ؟ قُلْتُ لَا قَالَ فَتَعَلَّمْهَا فَتَعَلَّمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا لَفْظُ حَدِيثِ ابْنِ الْفَضْلِ
"عَنْ زَيدِ بنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ: قَالَ لِى رَسُولُ الله ﷺ : أَتُحْسِن السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ فَإِنَّهَا تَأتِينِى كُتُبٌ قُلْتُ: لَا. قَالَ: فَتَعلَّمْهَا، فَتَعَلَّمتُهَا فِى سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا".