عجباً للناس تاهوا
ببنّيات المسالك
How strange that people have lost their way
How strange that people have gone astray
amid the byways of the paths.
along the byways of the paths!
وصفوا بالفضل قوماً
وهُمُ ليسوا هنالك
They ascribed excellence to certain folk,
They credited a people with excellence,
though those folk were nowhere near it.
though they have no such standing.
كَثُرَ النقل ولكن
صح عن سهل بن مالك
Reports were many—but one was sound:
Reports have multiplied, and yet
that related on the authority of Sahl ibn Malik.
a report from Sahl ibn Malik is authentic.
Sol 6.1