What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
“A hadith transmitter who does not know grammar is like a donkey with a nosebag on its head that holds no barley.”
Shu'ba ibn al-Hajjaj
d. 160 AH / 776 CE
Basran hadith master, called 'Commander of the Faithful in hadith'
The Arabic original
إِذا كانَ المُحَدِّثُ لا يَعْرِفُ النَّحْوَ فَهُوَ كَالحِمَارِ يَكُونُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ مِخْلاةٌ لَيْسَ فِيها شَعِيرٌ
Source
al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-Iman, Rushd ed., 2003, no. 1566, vol. 3, p. 216
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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