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suyuti:2-3217b – ʿUmariw b. Ḥurayth
Translation not available.

  

السيوطي:٢-٣٢١٧b –

"عَنْ عُمَرِو بْنِ حُرَيْثٍ: أَنَّ شَاعِرًا كَانَ فِى عَهْدِ عُمَر يَرْوِى شِعْرًا كَبِيرًا، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: لأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ (جَوْفُ أحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا خَيْر مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ) شِعْرًا".  

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bukhari:6154 – ʿUbaydullāh b. Mūsá > Ḥanẓalah > Sālim > Ibn ʿUmar

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."  

البخاري:٦١٥٤ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُوسَى أَخْبَرَنَا حَنْظَلَةُ عَنْ سَالِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ

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

muslim:2258 – Muḥammad 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:٢٢٥٨ – حَدَّثَنَا 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:8375 – Abū al-Naḍr > Abū Jaʿfar > ʿĀṣim > 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)  

أحمد:٨٣٧٥ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو النَّضْرِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ عَاصِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا