What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
Hearing a man speak Persian while circling the Ka‘ba, he took him by the arm and said:
“Seek a way to Arabic.”
Umar ibn al-Khattab
d. 23 AH / 644 CE
The second Rightly Guided Caliph
The Arabic original
ابْتَغِ إِلَى العَرَبِيَّةِ سَبِيلاً
Source
al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab al-Iman, Rushd ed., 2003, no. 1557, vol. 3, p. 210
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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