Did the Quraysh protest to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, using the words “kibarā, ujāb, qaswarah,” claiming they were not from the Arabic language? And did they resort to an Arab Bedouin sheikh for arbitration, and when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, repeatedly asked him to sit down and stand up, did the sheikh become angry, saying, “Are you mocking me, O son of the lion of the Arabs, when I am an elder? Indeed, this is a wondrous thing”?
This report has not been found in the Sunnah collections or the books of the scholars, which indicates it is fabricated. The words mentioned are common Arabic words, with the exception of the word "qaswarah," which exists in the Arabic language and refers to something intense, and it is a common word in Abyssinian and Persian, and may have been arabicized.
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