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suyuti:17111a
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السيوطي:١٧١١١a

"لأنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ الرَّجُلِ قَيحًا أوْ دَمًا خَيرٌ مِنْ أنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا مما هَجَيَتْ (*) به".  

[ع] أبو يعلى [عد] ابن عدى في الكامل عن جابر

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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Suyūṭī
bukhari:6155ʿUmar b. Ḥafṣ from my father > al-Aʿmash > Abū Ṣāliḥ > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ; said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry."  

البخاري:٦١٥٥حَدَّثَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ ؓ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ رَجُلٍ قَيْحًا يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا  

muslim:2258Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná And Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yūnus b. Jubayr > Muḥammad b. Saʿd > Saʿd

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.  

مسلم:٢٢٥٨حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ سَعْدٍ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا  

ahmad:1535Bahz > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yūnus b. Jubayr > Muḥammad b. Saʿd b. Abū Waqqāṣ from his father

The Prophet ﷺ said, "It is better for a man to fill the inside of his body with pus than to fill it with poetry." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6154)  

أحمد:١٥٣٥حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا وَدَمًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا  

ahmad:1569Yaḥyá > Shuʿbah > Qatādah > Yūnus b. Jubayr > Muḥammad b. Saʿd from his father

Messenger of Allah ﷺ; said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6155)  

أحمد:١٥٦٩حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ شُعْبَةَ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ جُبَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ الرَّجُلِ قَيْحًا خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا  

ahmad:7874al-Faḍl b. Dukayn > Sufyān > al-Aʿmash > Dhakwān > Abū Hurayrah

Messenger of Allah ﷺ; said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry." (Using translation from Bukhārī 6155)  

أحمد:٧٨٧٤حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ دُكَيْنٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ذَكْوَانَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ الرَّجُلِ قَيْحًا يَرِيهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا  

darimi:2747ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá > Ḥanẓalah > Sālim > Ibn ʿUmar

from his father that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "It is better that one of you fill his insides with puss than to fill it with poetry." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 2851)   

الدارمي:٢٧٤٧أَخْبَرَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى حَدَّثَنَا حَنْظَلَةُ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا أَوْ دَمًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا»  

ibnhibban:5777al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥubāb al-Jumaḥī > Musaddad b. Musarhad > Abū Muʿāwiyah > al-Aʿmash > Abū Ṣāliḥ > Abū Hurayrah

"If a man were to fill his stomach completely with pus until it destroyed him, that would be better for him than filling (his mind) with poetry." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3760)   

ابن حبّان:٥٧٧٧أَخْبَرَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ الْجُمَحِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدُ بْنُ مُسَرْهَدٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا حَتَّى يَرِيَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا»  

tabarani:6132

"If a man were to fill his stomach completely with pus until it destroyed him, that would be better for him than filling (his mind) with poetry." (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3760)   

الطبراني:٦١٣٢وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لِأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا حَتَّى يَرِيَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا»  

tabarani:9752ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz > Abū Nuʿaym > Sufyān > Salamah b. Kuhayl > Abū al-Zaʿrāʾ > ʿAbdullāh

[Machine] "That a man be filled with pus is better for him than to be filled with hair."  

الطبراني:٩٧٥٢حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ ثنا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ ثنا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ كُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزَّعْرَاءِ قَالَ قَالَ عَبْدُ اللهِ

«لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ الرَّجُلُ قَيْحًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا»  

suyuti:17110a
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السيوطي:١٧١١٠a

"لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ رَجُل قَيحًا حَتَّى يرِيه خَيرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أنْ يَمْتَلئَ شِعْرًا".

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[حم] أحمد [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [ت] الترمذي [هـ] ابن ماجة عن أبي هريرة، [حم] أحمد [م] مسلم [هـ] ابن ماجة عن سعيد بن أبي وقاص، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن سلمان، [طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن ابن عمر