320 Origin and progress of writing down historical facts. [No. 4. 



asked them : How do you repeat 7*adythes you have heard from the 

 prophet ? I find you are paying great attention to Aadythes. They 

 laucrht and said, " all what we have heard from him we have con. 

 signed to writing," M* j*> *■ li *~» U & * «*» ** ** &* 



There are two versions of this Z^adyth. 



VII.— Distinguished men of the first century who have not seen the 

 ! prophet, but who approved of writing down hadythes and did so 

 themselves. 



58 'Abd al-EaAman b. Harmalah [d. in 145] says, " I had a bad 

 memory" (or according to Cayrafy's version, "and I could not learn 

 any thing by heart") " therefore Sa'yd b. al-Mosayyab [d. in 90 odd] 

 gave me leave to take notes." 



59 AjJ\ o£ jki\ ^ dyu iJ ^^\ ^ 



Sha'by [d. in 105 aged 77 years] used to say "Writing fixes 

 knowledge." He also used to say, " If you hear anything from me 

 write it down, and in the worst case on the wall." He also said, 

 " Write down every information you collect." 



60 U>*Al*io b3S UHd j& er'^l v* Lp**ty <p? 

 Al-Hasan[Ba 9 ry?d.in 110] said, according to A' mash [d. in 



148], We have books on which we place our reliance. 



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Bashyr b. Nahyk said, according to Abd Mijlaz [see p. 220]: 

 I collected the Aadythes which I had heard from Abu Horayrah m 

 a book. When I was about leaving him I said, - I have collected 

 your fcadythes in a book, shall I propagate its contents on your 

 authority ?" He answered, " Yes, do propagate them." 



62 & aU ~iG ^13 \j& J*i J*\ csrfl v* *i*" c* **** < 



Kathyr b. AflaA said, according to Mohammad b. Syryn[d. 110]: 

 we used to write when we attended tbe lectures of 2a,d b. Tbaln 

 [who used to write tbe revelation for tbe prophet and d,ed m 4o or 

 48, or after 50]." . ■' , . ' J 



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