Sunan Ibn Majah 3759

Translation

"If a man were to fill his stomach completely with pus until it destroyed him, that would be better for him than filling (his mind) with poetry."

Notes

• إِلاَّ أَنَّ حَفْصًا لَمْ يَقُلْ يَرِيَهُ

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2259Musnad Ahmad 11368Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26607Musnad al-Bazzar 6085

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   Dhakwān al-Sammān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
   أَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   al-Aʿmash

   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 AH
   الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
   عن
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَوَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Bakr b. Abī Shaybah

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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