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Sahih Muslim
كتاب الشعر
The Book of Poetry
" لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا "
It is better for the belly of any one of you to be stuffed with pus rather than to stuff (one's mind) with poetry.
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- Hadith 2256d
The truest couplet recited by a poet is: "Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain," and he made no addition to it.
- Hadith 2255b
One day when I rode behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), he said (to me): Do you remember any poetry of Umayya b. Abu Salt. I said: Yes. He said: Then go on. I…
- Hadith 2257
It is better for a man's belly to be stuffed with pus which corrodes it than to stuff (one's mind) with frivolous poetry. Abu Bakr has reported it with a…
- Hadith 2256e
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The truest word which the poet stated is the word of Labid: "Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain."
- Hadith 2255a
One day when I rode behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), he said (to me): Do you remember any poetry of Umayya b. Abu Salt. I said: Yes. He said: Then go on. I…
- Hadith 2256a
The truest word spoken by an Arab (pre-Islamic) in poetry is this verse of Labid: "Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain."