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What they said about Arabic Via a reliable witness

Passing people who were learning Arabic, he said:

“They do well: they are learning the language of their Prophet.”

al-Hasan al-Basri
d. 110 AH / 728 CE
Successor, leading scholar of Basra

The Arabic original

أَحْسَنُوا، يَتَعَلَّمُونَ لُغَةَ نَبِيِّهِمْ ﷺ

Source

al-Nahhas, 'Umdat al-Kuttab, ed. al-Jabi, Dar Ibn Hazm, 2004, pp. 36-37, no. 43
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.

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