{
    "source": "ParallelQuran.com",
    "exported_at": "2026-08-25T18:06:19Z",
    "count": 11,
    "hadith": [
        {
            "number": 5735,
            "global_number": "13012",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Amr bin 'Abdullah bin Abi Talha عمرو بن عبد الله بن أبي طلحة"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "One day when I rode behind Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ), he said (to me): Do you remember any poetry of Umayya b. Abu Salt. I said: Yes. He said: Then go on. I recited a couplet, and he said: Go on. Then I again recited a couplet and he said: Go on. I recited one hundred couplets (of his poetry). This hadith has been reported on the authority of Sharid through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5735/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5736,
            "global_number": "13013",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Amr bin 'Abdullah bin Abi Talha عمرو بن عبد الله بن أبي طلحة"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "“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.”",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5736/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5737,
            "global_number": "13014",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "The truest word spoken by an Arab (pre-Islamic) in poetry is this verse of Labid: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain.”",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5737/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5738,
            "global_number": "13015",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "The truest word uttered by a poet is this verse of Labid: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain,” and Umayya b. Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5738/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5739,
            "global_number": "13016",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "The truest verse recited by a poet is: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain,” and Ibn Abu Salt was almost a Muslim.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5739/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5740,
            "global_number": "13017",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "The truest couplet recited by a poet is: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain,” and he made no addition to it.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5740/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5741,
            "global_number": "13018",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "I heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: The truest word which the poet stated is the word of Labid: “Behold! apart from Allah everything is vain.”",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5741/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5742,
            "global_number": "13019",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Hurairah"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "It is better for a man’s belly to be stuffed with pus which corrodes it than to stuff (one’s mind) with frivolous poetry. Abu Bakr has reported it with a slight variation of wording.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5742/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5743,
            "global_number": "13020",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Sa`d from his father"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "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.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5743/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5744,
            "global_number": "13021",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Abu Sa'id al-Khudri"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "We were going with Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). As we reached the place (known as) `Arj there met (us) a poet who had been reciting poetry. Thereupon Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: Catch the satan or detain the satan, for filling the belly of a man with pus is better than stuffing his brain with poetry.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5744/"
        },
        {
            "number": 5745,
            "global_number": "13022",
            "collection": "Sahih Muslim",
            "book": "The Book of Poetry",
            "narrators": [
                "Kuraib"
            ],
            "grade": "Sahih",
            "text": "He who played Nardashir (a game similar to backgammon) is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.",
            "url": "https://parallelquran.com/hadith/sahih-muslim-5745/"
        }
    ]
}