Sahih Muslim Book 28. Poetry
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5602.
Chapter: Not known.
‘Amr b. Sharid reported his father as saying: One day when I rode behind 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.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5603.
Chapter: Not known.
‘Amr b. Sharid reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) asked him to recite poetry, 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.”
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5604.
Chapter: Not known.
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.”
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5605.
Chapter: Not known.
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.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5606.
Chapter: Not known.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The truest verse recited by a poet is: Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain, and Ibn Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5607.
Chapter: Not known.
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.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5608.
Chapter: Not known.
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.”
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5609.
Chapter: Not known.
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger(may peace be upon him)as saying: It is better for a man’s belly to be stuffed 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.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5610.
Chapter: Not known.
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.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5611.
Chapter: Not known.
Abd ‘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 a poem. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Catch the satan or detain the satan, for filling the belly of a person with pus is better than stuffing his brain with poetry.
SAHIH MUSLIM BOOK 28. POETRY
Sahih Muslim Book 28, Hadith Number 5612.
Chapter: It is prohibited to play chess.
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.
