Bk 28 Poetry (Kitab Al−Sh`ir)
Chapter 1:....
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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."
Bk 28, 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."
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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."
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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.
Bk 28, 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
Bk 28, 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.
