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nasai-kubra:5212Sūwayd b. Nṣr > Akhbrnā ʿAbdullāh > Sufyān > Yaʿlá b. ʿAṭāʾ > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyib And Saʾalah Aʿrābī > Sharāb Yuṭbakh > al-Niṣf

"I heard Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab say, when a Bedouin asked him about a drink that had been cooked and reduced by half: 'No, not until two-third has gone and one-third is left.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5722)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٢١٢أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدٌ بن نصر قَالَ أَخبرنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيِّبِ وَسَأَلَهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ عَنْ شَرَابٍ يُطْبَخُ عَلَى النِّصْفِ قَالَ

«لَا حَتَّى يَذْهَبَ ثُلُثَاهُ وَيَبْقَى الثُّلُثُ»  


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Collected by Nasāʾī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
nasai:5722Sūwayd > ʿAbdullāh > Sufyān > Yaʿlá b. ʿAṭāʾ > Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab And Saʾalah Aʿrābī > Sharāb Yuṭbakh > al-Niṣf

"I heard Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab say, when a Bedouin asked him about a drink that had been cooked and reduced by half: 'No, not until two-third has gone and one-third is left.'"  

النسائي:٥٧٢٢أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدٌ قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ وَسَأَلَهُ أَعْرَابِيٌّ عَنْ شَرَابٍ يُطْبَخُ عَلَى النِّصْفِ فَقَالَ

لاَ حَتَّى يَذْهَبَ ثُلُثَاهُ وَيَبْقَى الثُّلُثُ  

nasai-kubra:5206Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Dāwud > Saʾalt Saʿīd Mā al-Sharāb al--Adhī Aḥallah ʿUmar

"I heard Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab say, when a Bedouin asked him about a drink that had been cooked and reduced by half: 'No, not until two-third has gone and one-third is left.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5722)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٢٠٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدًا مَا الشَّرَابُ الَّذِي أَحَلَّهُ عُمَرُ قَالَ

«الَّذِي يُطْبَخُ حَتَّى يَذْهَبَ ثُلُثَاهُ وَيَبْقَى ثُلُثُهُ»