al-Dhahabi
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al-Dhahabī · the author · الذهبي · المصنف · al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī · الحافظ الذهبي · المؤلف
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Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The author of this bibliographical survey of the Islamic sciences, who names the characteristic vice of each scholarly class and admits to having spent part of his life in the science of recitation.
Know that in every class of the scholars of this community there is something blameworthy and faulty — so shun it:
in them there is a finicking over-nicety (*tanaṭṭuʻ*) and a surplus of refinement, which leads to this — that the reciter who articulates precisely remains with his whole ambition turned toward the observance of the letters and toward the finicking over their articulation, so that this occupies him away from pondering the meanings of the Book of God Most High, and turns him aside from humility (*k …
And in our book ʻAtb al-mughtarrīn bi-dajājilat al-muʻammarīn you will see wonders and strange things.