English translation
3760. It was narrated from Sa'd bin Abu Waqqas that the Prophet 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)
Hadith 3760
What Kind Of Poetry Is Undesirable
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Darussalam · Volume 5
Chapters On EtiquetteSunan Ibn Majah Darussalam English translation
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الحديث: 3760 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 1237
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Source no. 3760 · Volume 8 · Page 260
Sahih
صحيح الصحيحة أيضا
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Arabic text
3760 - حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي قَتَادَةُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ، عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا حَتَّى يَرِيَهُ، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا»
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a. 'Fill completely with pus' means loving poetry so much that one becomes devoted to it. Anyway memorizing even a few verses of bad poetry is not good. b. Verses of poetry in this Hadith refer to the bad verses.