668/865 From Abdullah ibn Amr who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Poetry is like speech; its good is like good speech, and its bad is like bad speech."

669/866 From Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her; she used to say: "Poetry, some of it is good and some of it is bad. Take what is good and leave what is bad. Indeed, I have memorized from the poetry of Ka'b ibn Malik poems, among them a poem containing forty verses, and less than that."

670/867 From Shurayh who said: I said to Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her: Did the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ever recite any poetry? She said: He used to recite some lines of poetry by Abdullah ibn Rawaha: "And news will be brought to you by one whom you did not supply."(1).

I said: Under it is supported the hadith of al-Shurayd mentioned previously in (308- Chapter - 346)."

671/870 From Ibn Umar, from the Prophet, peace be upon him, who said: "For one of you to have his belly filled with pus is better for him than to have it filled with poetry."

672/871 From Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas: "And the poets are followed by the deviators" [الشعراء: 224] up to His saying: "And that they say what they do not do" [الشعراء: 226] . So that was abrogated and an exception was made, and He said: "Except those who believe" up to His saying: "they return" (1).

673/872 From Ibn Abbas: That a man – or a Bedouin – came to the Prophet, peace be upon him, and spoke with clear speech, so the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: "Indeed, some eloquence is magic, and indeed, some poetry is wisdom."

674/874 From Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "The greatest of people in sin is a poet who satirizes an entire tribe, and a man who denies his father."

675/875 From Ibn Umar who said: Two men from the east came as preachers during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. They stood up and spoke, then sat down. Then Thabit ibn Qays, the preacher of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, stood up and spoke, and the people were amazed at their speech. The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, then stood up to preach and said: "O people! Say what you have to say, for indeed splitting hairs in speech is from the Shaytan." Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: "Indeed, some eloquence is magic."

676/876 From Anas who said: A man delivered a sermon before Umar and spoke at length, so Umar said: "Indeed, excessive speech in sermons is among the rants of Satan."(3).