What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
“Those in the East who became heretics did so only out of ignorance of the speech of the Arabs and the foreignness of their hearts.”
Abu al-Zinad
d. 130 AH / 748 CE
'Abd Allah ibn Dhakwan, Medinan Successor and jurist
The Arabic original
ما تَزَنْدَقَ مَنْ تَزَنْدَقَ بِالمَشْرِقِ إِلّا جَهْلاً بِكَلامِ العَرَبِ، وَعُجْمَةَ قُلُوبِهِمْ
Source
al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-Iman, Rushd ed., 2003, no. 1569, vol. 3, pp. 216-217
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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