'Amr b. Sharid reported his father as saying: One day when I rode ehind Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam), 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.
No. 5603
'Amr b. Sharid reported on the authority of his father that Allaah's Messeniger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) 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."
No. 5604
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The truest word spoken by an Arab (pre-Islamic) in poetry is this verse of Labid:" Behold! apart from Allaah everything is vain."
No. 5605
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The truest word uttered by a poet is this verse of Labid:" Behold! apart from Allaah everything is vain," and Umayya b. Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
No. 5606
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The truest verse recited by a poet is: Beliold! apart from Allaah everything is vain," and Ibn Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.
No. 5607
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The truest couplet recited by a poet is:" Behold! apart from Allaah everything is vain," and he made no addition to it.
No. 5608
Abu Huraira reported: I heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The truest word which the poet stated is the word of Labid:" Behold! apart from Allaah everything is vain."
No. 5609
Abu Huraira reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) 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.
No. 5610
Sa'd reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) 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.
No. 5611
Abu Sa`id Khudri reported: We were going with Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam). As we reached the place (known as) Arj there met (us) a poet who had been reciting poetry. Thereupon Allaah's Messanger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) 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.