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come into my house, in order, that I might say prayers in it. He 

 came with some of his companions and said prayers. They talked 

 of the mischief which the Moslims, who were not sincere, were doing 

 and ascribed the greatest part of it to Malik b. Dokhayshim. The 

 prophet said, Does he not profess that there is no god besides the 

 God, and that I am his prophet ? No man who makes this pro- 

 fession will go to hell. 'Itban continues, This ^adyth pleased me so 

 much, that I told my son to write it down and he did write it down.*' 



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'Abd Allah b. al-Mothanniy relates : " My two uncles, al-Nadhr 

 [d. shortly after 100] and Musa, [d. after his brother] the sons of 

 Anas b. Malik [d. 92] said, that their father ordered them to write 

 down the sayings and example of the prophet, and learn them.'* 

 For, he observed, " We never considered the knowledge of a man 

 to be knowledge if he does not write it down." 



56. " Al-iZasan b. Jabir (d. in 128) asked Abu Imamah [Qodayy] 

 Bahily [d. in Syria in 86] regarding writing down knowledge, and 

 he answered, there is no harm." 



57. 'Abd Allah b. 'Amr relates : " Several men went to the pro- 

 phet and I was the youngest among them," and he said, " If a 

 person, intentionally attributes to me a saying which I have not 

 uttered, he will go to hell." When they had left the prophet, I 



