وحَدَّثَنِي حَجَّاجُ بْنُ الشَّاعِرِ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ ، قَالَ : سَمِعْتُ زُهَيْرًا ، يَقُولُ : قَالَ جَابِرٌ أَوْ سَمِعْتُ جَابِرًا ، يَقُولُ : إِنَّ عِنْدِي لَخَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ حَدِيثٍ ، مَا حَدَّثْتُ مِنْهَا بِشَيْءٍ.قَالَ ثُمَّ حَدَّثَ يَوْمًا بِحَدِيثٍ ، فَقَالَ : هَذَا مِنَ الْخَمْسِينَ أَلْفًا.
Hajjāj bin ash-Shā’ir narrated to me, Ahmad bin Yūnus narrated to us, he said, I heard Zuhayr saying, Jābir said, or, I heard Jābir saying: ‘Indeed I have fifty thousand Ḥadīth that I have not narrated from at all’. [Zuhayr] said: ‘Then that day he related a Ḥadīth and said, ‘This is from the fifty thousand’.