`Amr b. Sharid reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) asked him to recite poetry, the rest of the hadith is the same, but with this addition:
He (that is Umayya b. Abu Salt) was about to become a Muslim , and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Mahdi (the words are) He was almost a Muslim in his poetry.