يُلْقُونَ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَٰذِبُونَ
Yulqoonas sam'a wa aksaruhum aaziboon
They pass on what is heard, and most of them are liars.
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Justice & honesty
26:223Ayah 1227
12 ayahs in Ash-Shu'araa are strongly about justice and honesty. This is one of them.
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They the devils report the heard sayings what they hear from the angels they report to the soothsayers but most of them are liars adding much that is false to what they hear — this was revealed before the devils were barred from the heaven.
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We narrate what we have heard.
‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.
‘It is enough of a lie for a man that he narrates everything he hears’.
Shu’bah narrated to us, on authority of Khubayb bin Abd ir-Rahman, on authority of Hafs bin Āsim, on authority of Abī Hurayrah, he said, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah upon him, said: ‘It is enough of a lie for a man to narrate everything he hears’.
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: May Allah brighten a man who hears a tradition from us, gets it by heart and passes it on to others. Many a bearer of knowledge conveys it to one who is more versed than he is; and many a bearer of knowledge is not versed in it.
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