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Zayd ibn Thabit (ra): The Scribe of the Prophet ﷺ

The Firsts

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The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's Request to Learn Hebrew

"He's not a normal kid. Some of the kids are sitting here like, all right, so this is a new expectation," he says. "Zade all the Allah and I did it, right? Go learn a language or something." He learned enough Hebrew in two weeks to be able to write, read and write and communicate. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam then made him an interesting request: Do you know how to speak Syriac? It took Zade 16 days precisely to learn Persian.

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