What they said about Arabic Narrated with its chain
“Of the virtues people have taken up, none is more pleasing to me than eloquence.”
Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
d. 124 AH / 742 CE
Successor, first official compiler of hadith
The Arabic original
ما أَحْدَثَ النّاسُ مُرُوءَةً أَعْجَبَ إِلَيَّ مِنَ الفَصاحَةِ
Source
Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Hilyat al-Awliya', al-Sa'ada, Cairo, 1974, vol. 3, p. 364
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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