Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 870
Arabic hadith text
حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللهِ بْنُ مُوسَى، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا حَنْظَلَةُ، عَنْ سَالِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا.
Translation
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‘Ubaydullah ibn Musa related to us, saying: Hanzala informed us, from Salim, from Ibn ‘Umar, from the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said: “For one of you to fill his belly with pus is better for him than to fill it with poetry.”