Sahih Muslim — Hadith #7610

Al-Hajjaj bin Sha’ar, Ahmad bin Yunus, narrated from Ibrahim Nakha’i that Al-Harith (the blind) said: I learned the Quran in three years and the revelation in two years (or said: Revelation in three years and the Quran in two years). In the dictionary, revelation has many meanings, for example: pointing, writing, inspiration and secret speech, etc., but in Islamic terminology, revelation means sending a word, message, etc. to His Messenger in one of the ways prescribed by Allah. This statement of Al-Harith shows his ignorance in the matter of Islamic terminology.