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Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2850

What Has Been Related About Reciting Poetry

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حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا شَرِيكٌ عَنْ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

جَالَسْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ مِائَةِ مَرَّةٍ فَكَانَ أَصْحَابُهُ يَتَنَاشَدُونَ الشِّعْرَ وَيَتَذَاكَرُونَ أَشْيَاءَ مِنْ أَمْرِ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَهُوَ سَاكِتٌ فَرُبَّمَا تَبَسَّمَ مَعَهُمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAlī b. Ḥujr
  2. Sharīk
  3. Simāk
  4. Jābir b. Samurah

"I sat with the Prophet ﷺ more than one-hundred times. His Companions used to recite poetry and talk about things that occurred during Jahiliyyah, and he would remain silent, and sometimes he would smile along with them."

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Zubair Ali ZaiSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Ahmad Muhammad ShakirSahihfawazahmed0
Bashar Awad MaaroufHasan Sahihfawazahmed0
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Narrators

  1. علي بن حجر السعديʿAlī b. Ḥujr
  2. شريك بن عبد الله القاضيSharīk
  3. سماك بن حرب الذهليSimāk
  4. جابر بن سمرة العامريJābir b. Samurah