What Kind Of Poetry Is Undesirable
Darussalam · Volume 5
Chapters On EtiquetteSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
الحديث: 3759 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 1236
Source no. 3759 · Volume 8 · Page 259
Sahih
صحيح، الصحيحة (٣٣٦)
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3759. It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "If a man were to fill his stomach completely with pus until it destroyed him, that would be better for him than filling (his mind) with poetry." (Sahih) Except that (one of the narrators) Hafs did not say: "until it destroyed him."
3759 - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصٌ، وَأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ، وَوَكِيعٌ، عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ الرَّجُلِ قَيْحًا حَتَّى يَرِيَهُ، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا» إِلَّا أَنَّ حَفْصًا لَمْ يَقُلْ يَرِيَهُ
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Admiring good poetry and listening to it purposely is allowed, even if it is from a non-Muslim. Good poetry means that which is free from disbelief, polytheism, dissoluteness and lewdness.