What they said about Arabic Via a reliable witness
“I do not ask about the mind of a man whose mind has not led him to learn enough Arabic to set his tongue right.”
Qatada ibn Di'ama
d. 118 AH / 736 CE
Basran Successor, exegete and hadith scholar
The Arabic original
لا أَسْأَلُ عَنْ عَقْلِ رَجُلٍ لَمْ يَدُلَّهُ عَقْلُهُ عَلَى أَنْ يَتَعَلَّمَ مِنَ العَرَبِيَّةِ ما يُصْلِحُ لِسانَهُ
Source
al-Nahhas, 'Umdat al-Kuttab, ed. al-Jabi, 2004, p. 37, no. 49
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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