What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
“Learn the laws of inheritance, the [Arabic] language and the Sunna as you learn the Qur'an.”
Umar ibn al-Khattab
d. 23 AH / 644 CE
The second Rightly Guided Caliph
The Arabic original
تَعَلَّمُوا الْفَرَائِضَ وَاللَّحْنَ وَالسُّنَنَ كَمَا تَعَلَّمُونَ الْقُرْآنَ
Source
al-Darimi, al-Musnad (Sunan), ed. Husayn Salim Asad, Dar al-Mughni, Riyadh, no. 2892, vol. 4, p. 1885 (al-Zahrani ed. no. 2879)
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
«Al-lahn» here means the language and its correct use, as Yazid ibn Harun explained it.
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