| “ | Let the reader be aware that whatever I mention in my book is relied on the news that were narrated by some men. I had attributed these stories to their narrators, without inferring anything from their incidents [...] If a certain man gets horrified by a certain incident that we reported in our book, then let him know that it did not come from us, but we only wrote down what we received from the narrators. | ” |
— al-Tabari, Muhammad ibn Jarir (c.915). History of the Prophets and Kings (in Arabic). Vol. 1. Baghdad. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)
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