Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 343
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيٌّ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ حُبَابٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا يُوسُفُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نُجَيْدِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي نُجَيْدٌ، أَنَّ شَاعِرًا جَاءَ إِلَى عِمْرَانَ بْنِ حُصَيْنٍ فَأَعْطَاهُ، فَقِيلَ لَهُ: تُعْطِي شَاعِرًا؟ فَقَالَ: أُبْقِي عَلَى عِرْضِي.
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Yusuf ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Nujayd ibn ‘Imran ibn Husayn reported from his father, Nujayd: A poet came to ‘Imran ibn Husayn, who gave him something. Someone asked him, ‘You give to a poet?’ He replied, ‘I am protecting my reputation.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The Arabic attributes the report through Yusuf from his father, Nujayd, and says ‘I am protecting my honor/reputation’; it does not explicitly state the feared consequence, though the English witness glosses it as protection from satire.