«لَقَدْ بَلَوْتُ مِنَ الْعَجَائِبِ مَا لَمْ يَرَهُ الرَّاؤُونَ وَلَا رَوَاهُ الرَّاوُونَ»
I have encountered wonders that no observers saw and no narrators related.
This is Abū Zayd’s own claim, not independent verification by the outer narrator. The nearly identical sounds of al-rāʾūn (those who see) and al-rāwūn (those who recount) underline two ways of knowing a story.
His deliberate exaggeration draws the listeners in. The rhetoric is part of the performance, not evidence that the extraordinary account has already been proved.