What they said about Arabic Via a reliable witness
“Most of those who became heretics in Iraq did so out of ignorance of Arabic.”
Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani
d. 131 AH / 748 CE
Basran Successor and hadith master
The Arabic original
عامَّةُ مَنْ تَزَنْدَقَ بِالعِرَاقِ لِجَهْلِهِمْ بِالعَرَبِيَّةِ
Source
Abu Shama, Khutbat al-Kitab al-Mu'ammal, ed. Jamal 'Azzun, Adwa' al-Salaf, Riyadh, 2003, p. 63, via Abu 'Ubayd from al-Asma'i from al-Khalil from Ayyub
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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