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Qurʾān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Bukhārī Muslim Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Nasāʾī Ibn Mājah Dārimī Aḥmad Mālik Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
adab:864 –

See hadith 858.

الأدب المفرد:٨٦٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أُبَيِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ حِكْمَةٌ

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abudawud:5010 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Ibn al-Mubārak > Yūnus > al-Zuhrī > Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Ḥārith b. Hishām > Marwān b. al-Ḥakam > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. al-Aswad b. ʿAbd Yaghūth > Ubay b. Kaʿb

In poetry there is wisdom.

أبو داود:٥٠١٠ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ يُونُسَ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ هِشَامٍ عَنْ مَرْوَانَ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ الأَسْوَدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ يَغُوثَ عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَالَ إِنَّ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ حِكْمَةً

ibnmajah:3756 – Abū Bakr > Abū Usāmah > Zāʾidah > Simāk > ʿIkrimah > Ibn ʿAbbās

"In some poetry there is wisdom."

ابن ماجة:٣٧٥٦ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ عَنْ زَائِدَةَ عَنِ سِمَاكٍ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَانَ يَقُولُ إِنَّ مِنَ الشِّعْرِ حِكَمًا