Jami at-Tirmidhi

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What Has Been Related About 'It Is Better That One Of You Fill His Insides With Puss Than To Fill It With Poetry'

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Darussalam · Volume 5

41. The Chapters On Manners From The Messenger Of Allāh ﷺ

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الجزء: 4 ¦ الصفحة: 532

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2852. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “It is better that one of you fill his insides with puss than to fill it with poetry.” (Sahih) There are narrations on this topic from Sa’d, Abū Sa’eed, Ibn ‘Umar and Abū Ad-Dardā’. [Abū ‘Īsā said:] This Ḥadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīh.

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٢٨٥١ - حَدَّثَنَا ‌عِيسَى بْنُ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى الرَّمْلِيُّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَمِّي ‌يَحْيَى بْنُ عِيسَى ، عَنِ ‌الْأَعْمَشِ ، عَنْ ‌أَبِي صَالِحٍ، عَنْ ‌أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا» يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا. وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ، وَابْنِ عُمَرَ، وَأَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ. هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ.

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A stomach full of puss causes destruction to the stomach or lungs and ruins a person; filling the stomach with dirty, indecent and immoral poetry is a means of destruction of a person’s religion and morals.