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'Obayd Allah b. 'Omar 'Omary said, " We took a book to Zohry 

 which contained Aadythes of his, and we asked him, Are these 

 ^adythes of yours ? He took the book and looked into it, then he 

 returned it, and said, Yes, these are Aadythes of mine." 'Obayd 

 Allah says, " We took the book [and propagated the Aadythes on 

 his authority] though he had not read it to us,®nor did we ask him 

 for an ijazah beyond the affirmation that the book contained ^adythes 

 of his. This is Zohry's system of propagating Aadythes, who is the 

 greatest man in this science." 



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Waqidy relates: "Ibn Aby-1-Zinuad said, I was present when 

 Ibn Jorayj came to Hisham b. 'Orwah, and asked him, Does the 

 roll which you have given to A. B. contain your Aadythes ? and he 

 answered, "Yes." "Waqidy observes, "I subsequently heard Ibn 

 Jorayj repeat these Aadythes, saying, I have been informed by 

 Hisham b. 'Orwah." 



103. Zayd b. Ayyub said to Mohammad b. Syryn: " Some body 

 has left me his books by will, shall I repeat the Aadythes which they 

 contain quoting his authority ?" And he replied, " Yes." Subse- 

 quently he said, " I do not tell you to do it nor do I tell you not to 

 do it." 



I refrain from repeating passages bearing on this subject, which 

 have already been published and postpone collecting the informa- 

 tion contained in Dzohaby's Tahdzyb for a time, when 1 may have 

 more fully examined that work than at present. I may refer here 

 to what I have said on writing in early days in p. 211 to 213 of 

 this volume. 



(To be continued.) 



