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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
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السيوطي:١٧١١٣a –

"لأَنْ يَمْتَلئَ مَا بَينَ لَبَّتِكَ إِلَى عَانتِكَ قَيحًا خيرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلئَ شِعْرًا".  

[طب] الطبرانى في الكبير عن مالك بن عمير

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Collected by Aḥmad, Suyūṭī
ahmad:1569 – Yaḥyá > 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:١٥٦٩ – حَدَّثَنَا 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