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hakim:5781al-Imām Abū al-Walīd And ʾAbū Bakr b. Quraysh > al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān > Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Jarīr > al-Aʿmash > Thābit b. ʿUbayd > Zayd b. Thābit

[Machine] There was a Sahabi called Thabit ibn Ubaid who asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ , "Do you speak Syriac?" I said, "No." The Prophet ﷺ said, "Learn it, for it brings us books." So, within seventeen days, I learned it. Al-A'mash said, "Books used to come to him and no one could read them except those who trusted him." This Hadith is considered Sahih if it is proven that Thabit ibn Ubaid heard it from Zaid ibn Thabit without any interruption.  

الحاكم:٥٧٨١حَدَّثَنَا الْإِمَامُ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَا ثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ ثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ قَالَ

لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «أَتُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّةَ؟» فَقُلْتُ لَا قَالَ «فَتَعَلَّمْهَا فَإِنَّهُ يَأْتِينَا كُتُبٌ» فَتَعَلَّمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا قَالَ الْأَعْمَشُ «كَانَتْ تَأْتِيَهُ كُتُبٌ لَا يَشْتَهِي أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا مَنْ يَثِقُ بِهِ» صَحِيحٌ إِنْ كَانَ ثَابِتُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ سَمِعَهُ مِنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ صحيح إن كان ثابت سمعه من زيد  


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ibnhibban:7136Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm > Yūsuf b. Mūsá > Jarīr > al-Aʿmash > Thābit b. ʿUbayd > Zayd b. Thābit

[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.'"  

ابن حبّان:٧١٣٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ قَالَ

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 «