Sahih al-Bukhari 6147
What kinds of poetry, Rajaz and Huda is allowed
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حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو سَلَمَةَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ
أَصْدَقُ كَلِمَةٍ قَالَهَا الشَّاعِرُ كَلِمَةُ لَبِيدٍ أَلاَ كُلُّ شَىْءٍ مَا خَلاَ اللَّهَ بَاطِلُ وَكَادَ أُمَيَّةُ بْنُ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ أَنْ يُسْلِمَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Bashhār
- Ibn Mahdī
- Sufyān
- ʿAbd al-Malik
- Abū Salamah
- Abū Hurayrah
- al-Nabī ﷺ
The Prophet ﷺ said, "The most true words said by a poet were the words of Labid. He said, i.e. 'Verily, everything except Allah is perishable and Umaiya bin Abi As-Salt was about to embrace Islam.
Notes
وَكَادَ أُمَيَّةُ بْنُ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ أَنْ يُسْلِمَ
machine translationAnd Umayyah b. Abī al-Ṣalt almost became a Muslim.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3841Sahih Muslim 2256bSahih Muslim 2256cSunan Ibn Majah 3757Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26537
Narrators
- 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 (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبُو سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), eloquent, a scholar; his memory changed and he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 133 AH or 136 AHعَبْدِ الْمَلِكِثقة , فصيح عالم ، تغير حفظه وربما دلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable of the narrators and of ḥadīthd. 198 AHابْنُ مَهْدِيٍّثقة ثبت حافظ ، عارف بالرجال والحديثحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AHابْنُ بَشَّارٍثقةحدثنا
- a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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