What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
On anyone who interprets the Qur'an without knowing the Arabs' language:
“No man who does not know the dialects of the Arabs will be brought to me for interpreting it [the Qur'an] without my making an example of him.”
Malik ibn Anas
d. 179 AH / 795 CE
Imam of Medina, founder of the Maliki school
The Arabic original
لا أُوتَى بِرَجُلٍ غَيْرِ عالِمٍ بِلُغاتِ العَرَبِ يُفَسِّرُ ذَلِكَ إِلّا جَعَلْتُهُ نَكالاً
Source
al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-Iman, ed. 'Abd al-'Ali Hamid, Maktabat al-Rushd, Riyadh, 2003, no. 2090, vol. 3, p. 543 (Zaghlul ed. no. 2287, vol. 2, p. 426)
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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