"Have you ever seen Baghdad?"

Yunus bin 'Abd al-A'la as-Sadfi said that ash-Shafi'i said to him:

يا يونس، أدخلت بغداد؟ قال: لا، قال: ما رأيت الدنيا

ENGLISH:

"Have you ever seen Baghdad?" He replied: "No." So, ash-Shafi'i said: "Then you have not seen the world."

NEDERLANDS:

"Heb je ooit Baghdad gezien?" Hij antwoordde: "Nee". Al-Shafi'ie zei: "Dan heb je niks van de wereld gezien".

["Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah", 9/460].