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bayhaqi:14676Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh And ʾAbū Saʿīd b. Abū ʿAmr > Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣam > Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ṣaghānī > Naṣr b. Ḥammād Abū al-Ḥārith al-Warrāq > Shuʿbah > Qays b. al-Rabīʿ > Abū Ḥuṣayn > Khālid b. Saʿd

[Machine] A skilled boy from the writers, so Abu Mas'ud commanded and bought for his boys a canary with a dirham, but he disliked the looters.  

البيهقي:١٤٦٧٦أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو طَاهِرٍ الْفَقِيهُ وَأَبُو سَعِيدِ بْنُ أَبِي عَمْرٍو قَالَا نا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ الْأَصَمُّ نا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ الصَّغَانِيُّ أنا نَصْرُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ أَبُو الْحَارِثِ الْوَرَّاقُ نا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ الرَّبِيعِ عَنْ أَبِي حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ

أَنَّ غُلَامًا مِنَ الْكُتَّابِ حَذَقَ فَأَمَرَ أَبُو مَسْعُودٍ فَاشْتَرَى لِصِبْيَانِهِ بِدِرْهَمٍ جَوْزًا وَكَرِهَ النُّهْبَى