بـسم الله
الرّحمن الرّحيم
KNOWLEDGE –AL-KHALEEL IBN AHMAD
*al-Haafiz Aboo
‘Umar Yoosuf ibn ‘Abdil-Barr -rahimahullaah- said in
his ‘Jaami’
Bayaanil – ‘Ilm wa Fadlihi’ (1/584/no.1001):
“ al-Khaleel
ibn Ahmad1 -rahimahullaah-
said:
“ I never heard anything except that I wrote it down, and I never wrote anything down except that I memorized it, and I never memorized anything except that it benefited me”.”
[Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood ibn Ronald Burbank
(rahimahullaah)]
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1 He was al-Khaleel ibn Ahmad al-Azdee, al-Faraaheedee, Aboo ‘Abdir-Rahmaan, al-Basree. The scholar of the language. He compiled the famous dictionary of the Arabic language ‘al-‘Ayn’, and initiated ‘al-‘Arood’ (the science of of prosody/versification of Arabic poetry). He studied under Ayyoob as-Sakhtiyaanee, ‘Aasim al-Ahwal, and others. His students included Hammad ibn Zayd, Seebawayh, and an-Nadr ibn Shumayl. Ibraaheem al-Harbee said: ‘He was a person of the Sunnah. He was born in the year 100H, and died in the year 170 or 175H. (refs.: ‘Taqreebut-Tahdheeb’; ‘Tahdheebut-Tahdheeb’; Khulaasah Tadhheebil-Kaamal’.]
Taken from: https://alitisaambissunnah.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/knowledge-al-khaleel-ibn-ahmad/
