abu bakr abdulbaqi bin briyal alhijari said some of the great people of his time informed me that he said i took the copy that contained the hadiths that were mentioned in the condemnation of singing and the prohibition of selling female singers and what abu muhammad mentioned in it and i went with it to the imam and jurist abu omar bin abdulbarr and i showed it to him for days and i asked him to contemplate it so the copy remained with him for days and then i went to him and said what i did with the copy and he said i found it and i did not find anything to add to it or anything to subtract from it.
قال أبو بكر عبد الباقي بن بريال الحجاري رضي الله عنه ولقد أخبرني بعض كبار أهل زمانه أنه قال أخذت النسخة التي فيها الأحاديث الواردة في ذم الغناء والمنع من بيع المغنيات، وما ذكره فيها أبو محمد رضي الله عنه ونهضت بها إلى الإمام الفقيه أبي عمر بن عبد البر ووقفته عليها أياما ورغبته في أن يتاملها، فاقامت النسخة عنده أياما ثم نهضت إليه فقلت ما صنعت في النسخة فقال وجدتها فلم أجد ما أزيد فيها وما انقص.