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bayhaqi:20934Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥāfiẓ > Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ > Aḥmad b. Salamah > Jaʿfar b. Munīr al-Qaṭṭān al-Madāʾinī al-a man al-Ṣāliḥ > Abū Badr Shujāʿ b. al-Walīd > ʿUbaydullāh b. ʿUmar > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar > Suʾil > al-Shiṭranj

[Machine] He is worse than the dice.  

البيهقي:٢٠٩٣٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ صَالِحٍ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنِي جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُنِيرٍ الْقَطَّانُ الْمَدَائِنِيُّ الرَّجُلُ الصَّالِحُ قَالَ ثنا أَبُو بَدْرٍ شُجَاعُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ ثنا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ أَنَّهُ سُئِلَ عَنِ الشِّطْرَنْجِ فَقَالَ

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