The Book of Poetry (Kitab Al-Sh`ir)
Chapter 1:
Book 028, Number 5602:
'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.
Book 028, Number 5603:
'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."
Book 028, Number 5604:
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."
Book 028, Number 5605:
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.
Book 028, Number 5606:
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.
Book 028, Number 5607:
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.
Book 028, Number 5608:
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."
Book 028, Number 5609:
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.
Book 028, Number 5610:
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.
Book 028, Number 5611:
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.
Chapter 2: IT IS PROHIBITED TO PLAY CHESS
Book 028, Number 5612:
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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