'Amr b. Sharid reported his father as saying: One day
when I rode ehind Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him), he said (to me): Do you remember any Poetry of
Umayya b. Abu Salt. I said: Yes. He said: Then go on. I
recited a couplet, and he said: Go on. Then I again
recited a couplet and he said: Go on. I recited one
hundred couplets (of his poetry). This hadith has been
reported on the authority of Sharid through another chain
of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
'Amr b. Sharid reported on the authority of his father
that Allah's Messeniger (may peace be upon him) asked him
to recite poetrv, the rest of the hadith is the same, out
with this addition:" He (that is Umayya b. Abu Sharid was
about to become a muslim and in the hadith transmitted on
the authority, of Ibn Mahdi (the words are)" He was almost
a Muslim in his poetry."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The truest word spoken by an Arab
(pre-Islamic) in poetry is this verse of Labid:" Behold!
apart from Allah everything is vain."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The truest word uttered by a poet is
this verse of Labid:" Behold! apart from Allah everything
is vain," and Umayya b. Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The truest verse recited by a poet
is: Beliold! apart from Allah everything is vain," and Ibn
Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The truest couplet recited by a poet is:"
Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain," and he made
no addition to it.
Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: The truest word which the
poet stated is the word of Labid:" Behold! apart from
Allah everything is vain."
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
opon him) as saying: It is better for a man's belly to be
stuffld with pus which corrodes it than to stuff) one's
mind with frivolous poetry. Abd Bakr has reported it with
a slight variation Of wording.
Sa'd reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: 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.
Abu Sa`id Khudri reported: We were going with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). As we reached the place
(known as) Arj there met (us) a poet who had been reciting
poetry. Thereupon Allah's Messanger (may peace be upon
him) said: Catch the satan or detain the satan, for
filling the belly of a man with pus is betting than
stuffing his brain with poetry.
Buraida reported on the authority of his father that
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: He who
played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh
and blood of swine.
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