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ثَنَا narrated in Arabic

ثَنَا is how you say “narrated” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَأَنَا كَفِيلٌ لَكَ بِأَنَّهُ مَا يَسْمَعُ غَيْرَ ثَنَا قَالَ ثَنَا،

So I guarantee to you that he hears nothing except "narrated to us, he said, narrated to us."

ثَنَا narrated to us

A clipped transmission verb meaning 'narrated to us', a stock phrase from chains of hadith transmission rather than ordinary prose. Here it is quoted as a mere sound he registers, governed by the 'except' into the 'of'-style ending as the one thing heard.

From Humility Over Fame

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More example sentences

فَأَنَا كَفِيلٌ لَكَ بِأَنَّهُ مَا يَسْمَعُ غَيْرَ ثَنَا قَالَ ثَنَا،

So I guarantee to you that he hears nothing except "narrated to us, he said, narrated to us."

ثَنَا narrated to us

The same clipped 'narrated to us' repeated, mimicking how transmission links pile up in a chain. The echo paints the droning formula he hears, the repetition itself the point: just noise, link after link.

From Humility Over Fame

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