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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-Adab al-Mufrad al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī Misc

يَزِيدُ بْنُ الْأَسْوَدِ السُّوَائِيُّ أَبُو جَابِرٍ

tabarani:18914 – Aslam b. Sahl al-Wāsiṭī > Isḥāq b. Wahbal-ʿAllāf > Khālid b. ʿAmr al-Umawī > Sufyān > Yaʿlá b. ʿAṭāʾ > Jābir b. Yazīd b. al-Aswad from his father

[Machine] I recited to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a hundred lines of poetry by Umayyah ibn Abi Salt, every time I passed by a verse he would say "ah!" and I heard him saying in his gathering, "That neighbor is more deserving of his jar."  

الطبراني:١٨٩١٤ – حَدَّثَنَا أَسْلَمُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ الْوَاسِطِيُّ ثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ وَهْبٍ الْعَلَّافُ ثَنَا خَالِدُ بْن عَمْرٍو الْأُمَوِيُّ ثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ الْأَسْوَدِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

أَنْشَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ مِنْ شِعْرِ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ مِائَةَ قَافِيَةٍ كُلَّمَا مَرَرْتُ بِبَيْتٍ قَالَ هِيهِ وَسَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ فِي مَجْلِسِهِ ذَلِكَ الْجَارُ أَحَقُّ بِسَقَبِهِ  

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ibnmajah:3758 – Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿĪsá b. Yūnus > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Yaʿlá > ʿAmr b. al-Sharīd from his father

"I recited one hundered verses of the poetry of Umayyah bin Abu Salt to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and after every line he said, "More". And he said: "He nearly accepted Islam."  

ابن ماجة:٣٧٥٨ – حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عِيسَى بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْلَى عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ الشَّرِيدِ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

أَنْشَدْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِائَةَ قَافِيَةٍ مِنْ شِعْرِ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ يَقُولُ بَيْنَ كُلِّ قَافِيَةٍ هِيهِ وَقَالَ كَادَ أَنْ يُسْلِمَ