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I met a desert Arab in Mecca and asked him: "What tribe are you from?"
He said: "Asad."
"Which of Asad?" I said.
He said, "I am a Nahdi from the Asad of Oman."
I said, "Where have you gotten all this eloquence?"
He said, "I am from the desert."
- ^ A. H. Shalqānī, Riwāyat al-Lugha (Cairo: Dār Maʕārif bi Maṣr, 1971), p. 81.