Sahih al-Bukhari 6155
To indulge in poetry
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حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ رَجُلٍ قَيْحًا يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ
- my father
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
Messenger of Allah ﷺ; said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry."
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| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Agreed Upon | hadithunlocked |
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