Jami' al-Saghir / Jam' al-Jawami' (al-Suyuti) 2-1147b
"عن عمرَ قال: لأَن يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ الرجلِ قَيْحًا خيرٌ من أن يَمْتلئَ شِعْرًا".
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿMr
- Lʾan Yamtaliʾ Jawf al-Rjl Qayḥ Khyr Mn
Machine translation, not reviewed
"'Umar said: "For a man's belly to be filled with pus is better than for it to be filled with poetry."
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Notes
[ش] ابن أبى شيبة
machine translation[Note] Ibn Abī Shaybah
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