Sahih Muslim 2258

Translation

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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Other narrations of this report

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

Narrators

1. 1
   Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   One of the Ten (promised Paradise), and the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Godd. 50 AH or 51 AH or 54 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 57 AH, also said: 58 AH. And the second is better known
   سَعْد بْن أَبِي وَقَّاصأحد العشرة ، وأول من رمى بسهم في سبيل الله
   عن
2. 2
   Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 80 AH
   مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   Yūnus b. Jubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. died after 90 AH, before Anas b. Mālik
   يُونُسَ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
5. 5
   Shuʿbah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AH
   شُعْبَةُثقة حافظ , متقن
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar

   Trustworthy (thiqah), his book was sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), except that he had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 192 AH or 193 AH or 194 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍثقة صحيح الكتاب إلا أن فيه غفلة
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.