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suyuti:4-2782bʿAli > al-Ḥītān
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"عَنْ عَلِىٍّ قَالَ: (الحِيتَانُ، وَالْجَرادُ) ذَكِىٌّ كُلُّهُ".  

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bayhaqi:18977Abū Bakr al-Ardastānī > Abū Naṣr al-ʿIrāqī > Sufyān b. Muḥammad al-Jawharī > ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan > ʿAbdullāh b. al-Walīd > Sufyān > Jaʿfar from his father > ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

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البيهقي:١٨٩٧٧أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْأَرْدَسْتَانِيُّ أنبأ أَبُو نَصْرٍ الْعِرَاقِيُّ ثنا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ ثنا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ؓ قَالَ

الْحِيتَانُ وَالْجَرَادُ ذَكِيٌّ كُلُّهُ