Chapter: To indulge in poetry

Hadith Number 6154

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Narrated Ibn `Umar

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "It is better for a man to fill the inside of his body with pus than to fill it with poetry."

Hadith Number 6155

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Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ); said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry."