Sunan Abu Dawood 5008

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: it is better for a man’s belly to be full of pus than to be full of poetry. Abu Ali said: I have been told that Abu Ubaid said: It means that his heart is full of poetry..

Ubayy bin Kaab reported the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: In poetry there is wisdom. ..

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: A desert Arab came to the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and began to speak. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: In eloquence there is magic and in poetry there is wisdom. ..

Narrated Buraydah ibn al-Hasib: I heard the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم say: In eloquence there is magic, in knowledge ignorance, in poetry wisdom, and in speech heaviness. Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan said: The Prophet of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ..

Saeed said: Umar passed by Hassan when he was reciting verses in the mosque. He looked at him. Thereupon he said: I used to recite verses when there was present in it the one who was better than you (i. e. the Prophet). ..

The tradition mention above has also been transmitted by Saeed bin al-Musayyab through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds: so he (Umar’) feared that he would refer to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم;..