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282 – ʿAbdullāh narrated to us; he said: Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; he said: Khalaf ibn Tamīm narrated to us; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir narrated to us, from his father, from Mujāhid, who said: ⦗185⦘ “When the earth was commanded to swallow up the water, this piece of land, he said, was the slowest to drink it in and the hardest. For that reason it is ploughed with six oxen, whereas other land is worked with two donkeys or two oxen. I asked Ismāʿīl, and he replied … a man.”
٢٨٢ - حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا خَلَفُ بْنُ تَمِيمٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، قَالَ: ⦗١٨٥⦘ " لَمَّا أُمِرَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَنْ تَبْتَلِعَ الْمَاءَ، قَالَ: كَانَتْ هَذِهِ الْأَرْضُ هِيَ أَبْطَأَ ابْتِلَاعًا وَأَشَدَّ قَسْوَةً، قَالَ: فَلِذَلِكَ يُعْمَلُ بِسِتَّةِ أَثْوَارٍ، وَغَيْرُهَا يُعْمَلُ بِحِمَارَيْنِ أَوْ ثَوْرَيْنِ. فَسَأَلْتُ إِسْمَاعِيلَ فَقَالَ. . . رَجُلًا "