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with him, "Give your sons a good education,[1] for by Allâh! had it not been for ready wit, they would have been beheaded. Then he released them, and quoted:
Be the son of whom you may, yet acquire knowledge;
The glory thereof will serve thee instead of lineage.
Verily the youth who can say—I have got,
Is not the same as the youth who says—My father was.
- ↑ Ibn-Khalikân, on the authority of Ibn-ʾAbd-Rabbih, says that el-Hajjâj and his father kept school at et-Taïf, and that the former afterwards entered the police-guard of the Khalîfah ʾAbd-el-Málik.
