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and which we deny and do not acknowledge, that I write down the 

 ^adythes and permit them to be written down." 



73. Bija b. iZaywah [d. in 112] said : Hisham b. ' Abd al-Malik 

 asked me regarding a &adyth which I had forgotten, but fortunately 

 I had written it down. 



74. Abu Sofyan says : " Salman Saykary used to write down 

 Aadythes, but I did not write them down." 



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Manctir relates: "I said to Ibrahym, if Salim b. Aby-1-Ja'd 

 [d. in 98] relates ^adythes, he does so at full length but you seem 

 to be conglomerated." He replied, " He is in the habit of writing 

 them down and I do not write them down." In another version it 

 is said ^^o tfjaws*. *j| JU 



76. Mo'awiyah b. Qorrah said: "The knowledge of him who 

 does not write it down is not considered as knowledge." 



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Salm (?) says : " I saw Aban b. Aby 'Abbas write on tablets in the 

 lectures of Anas b. Malik." 



78. Ayyub [d. in 131] said : " They blame us for writing down 

 Aadythes, though it is said in the Qoran 20, 54. The Lord preserves 

 the knowledge thereof in writing." 



79. Mo'awiyah b. Aby Maysarah relates : " I saw Abu ShaybaU 

 writing at al-fiakam's, who had the Aadythes written on papyrus." 



80. Y-dhyk b. Sa'yd [d. in 141] said, " If I had written down all 

 what I heard, I should be better contented with my position than 

 I am now." [Yet we learn from the Tahdzyb, that he left writings 

 which were used by fiammad]. 



81. jEfammad [born in 98, d. in 179] relates : " Jaryr b. iZazini 

 and others send to me words. We intend to (collect and) write down 

 the ^adythes oi Ya^ya b. Sa'yd, and hope you will take a part in it. 

 I met them, and we repeated to each other his Aadythes and they 

 wrote them down." Ol ^+& 1>I Syf j fjU. ^ y^ .J Jli ^Us*. Jli 

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