1856.] Origin and progress of writing down historical facts. 309 



" Sofyan relates : Some body said to ' Anir, Sofyan writes down 

 [your lectures]. 'Amr laid down and cried, and said, I will teach 

 any one manners who writes down from me (i. e. my lectures). 

 Sofyan maintains that he did not write down any ^adythes whilst 

 he attended his lectures, but he asserts, It was our habit to impress 

 them in our memory." 



20. Abu Bakr b. 'Abd Allah sent to Ibn Aby-l-'Aliyah, request- 

 ing him to write a Aadyth down for him. Instead of answering he 

 came himself to him and said : If I was writing down [foidythes] for 

 anybody, I would do it for you. He repeated the Aadyth, and Abu 

 Bakr impressed it in his memory." 



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" DhaMak said, Do not collect the Aadythes into regular books 

 like the Qoran." 



The word employed for books in this ^adyth is Karras, which 

 means a fasciculus of ten leaves or twenty pages. Among the Arabs 

 books consist of such fasciculi which are frequently not bound 

 together, but kept loose in a port-folio, in order that several persons 

 can at the same time read the book. There is another /Myth, in 

 which this term is used. It is said of Layth that he disapproved of 

 Karrases ^Jj&l \£ <M ^ e^ er*^ l ^^ dU gfj \&*m. Jl». 



22. o^jt/ ^ ^Mf| •_**& cj| */ &i| p&\j,\ ^j*j&** yt) &* 

 "Ibrahym disapproved that Aadythes be written into Karrases." 

 Of this 7*adyth, two other versions are extant, viz. : ii>| +>A>\y,\ && 



v lix/| ^Xj &[{ " Ibrahym disapproved of writing." And A±*\y.\ JlS 

 V UXJ| \jAjZj \y\£ " Ibrahym said that they (his shaykhs) disapproved 

 of writing." 



IV. — Beasons why they disapproved of writing down hadythes. 



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"Zohry states on the authority of 'Orwah that the Khalif 'Omar 

 intended to write down the Sunan. He took the opinion of tho 

 companions of the prophet on the subject, and they advised him to 



