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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:56:39 –

A company of the former peoples  

A multitude from the former ˹generations˺,
القرآن:٥٦:٣٩ –

ثُلَّةٌ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

{ثلة من الأولين}.

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Collected by Qurʾān, Ṭabarānī
quran:56:13 –

A ˹large˺ company of the former peoples  

a multitude from the former ˹generations˺ (thullatun mina’l-awwalīna, the subject), that is to say, a group of individuals from communities of old,
القرآن:٥٦:١٣ –

ثُلَّةٌ مِنَ الْأَوَّلِينَ  

{ثلة من الأولين} مبتدأ، أي جماعة من الأمم الماضية.

شُفَيُّ الْأَصْبَحِيُّ، عنْ عبدِ اللهِ بنِ عَمْرٍو

tabarani:13673 – [Chain 1] Mūsá b. Hārūn > Kāmil b. Ṭalḥah al-Jaḥdarī [Chain 2] Ṭāhir b. ʿĪsá b. Qīras al-Miṣrī > Saʿīd b. Abū Maryam > Ibn Lahīʿah > Yazīd b. ʿAmr

[Machine] "I have learned a thousand examples from the Messenger of Allah, ﷺ ."  

الطبراني:١٣٦٧٣ – حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ هَارُونَ قَالَ ثنا كَامِلُ بْنُ طَلْحَةَ الْجَحْدَرِيُّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا طَاهِرُ بْنُ عِيسَى بْنِ قِيرَسَ الْمِصْرِيُّ قَالَ ثنا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَمْرٍو عَنْ شُفَيٍّ الْأَصْبَحِيِّ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ

«عَقَلْتُ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ أَلْفَ مَثَلٍ»