Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2852
What Has Been Related (That) 'Certainly, for the inside of one of you to be filled with with puss is better than it being filled with poetry'
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حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى الرَّمْلِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا عَمِّي يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى الرَّمْلِيُّ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا يَرِيهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ وَأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿĪsá b. ʿUthmān b. ʿĪsá al-Ramlī
- ʿAmmī Yaḥyá b. ʿĪsá al-Ramlī
- al-Aʿmash
- Abū Ṣāliḥ
- Abū Hurayrah
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "It is better that one of you fill his insides with puss than to fill it with poetry."
Notes
Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ.
وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ وَابْنِ عُمَرَ وَأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ. قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Bashar Awad Maarouf | Hasan Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن صحيح
machine translationThis is a good and sound (ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 3101
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2259Musnad Ahmad 11368Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 26607Musnad al-Bazzar 6085
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, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AHأَبِي صَالِحٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AHالْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلسعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), makes mistakes, and accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 201 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَىصدوق يخطئ ، ورمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq)d. 251 AHعِيسَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى الرَّمْلِيُّصدوقحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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