Musnad al-Bazzar 9205
✧ What 'Abd al-Rahman al-A'raj narrated from Abu Hurayrah
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حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، نَا وَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِ، نَا الْأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ:
لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAmr b. ʿAlī
- Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ For one of you to have his belly filled with pus is better for him than for it to be filled with poetry.
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- The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AHأَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابةعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشُثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسنا
- Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AHوَكِيعُ بْنُ الْجَرَّاحِثقة حافظ عابدنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 249 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 291 AH or 292 AH or 294 AHالبزار
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