What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
Abu Jaʿfar al-Tabari relates that he heard Abu ʿUmar al-Jarmi say:
“For thirty years now I have been giving people legal opinions out of the Book of Sibawayh.”
Abu ʿUmar al-Jarmi
d. 225 AH / 839 CE
Salih ibn Ishaq, Basran grammarian, pupil of al-Akhfash, and a scholar of hadith.
The Arabic original
أَنَا مُذْ ثَلاثُونَ أُفْتِي النَّاسَ فِي الفِقْهِ مِنْ كِتَابِ سِيبَوَيْهِ.
Source
Sibawayh, al-Kitab, ed. ʿAbd al-Salam Harun, Cairo: al-Khanji, 3rd ed., 1988, vol. 1, pp. 5–6, with its chain to Abu Jaʿfar al-Tabari; explained in al-Zubaydi, Tabaqat al-nahwiyyin, p. 75
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
He meant that the Book taught him reasoning and analysis, which he then applied to hadith and law.
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