حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ يَعْلَى قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَمْرَو بْنَ الشَّرِيدِ، عَنِ الشَّرِيدِ قَالَ: اسْتَنْشَدَنِي النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم شِعْرَ أُمَيَّةَ بْنِ أَبِي الصَّلْتِ، وَأَنْشَدْتُهُ، فَأَخَذَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ: هِيهِ، هِيهِ حَتَّى أَنْشَدْتُهُ مِئَةَ قَافِيَةٍ، فَقَالَ: إِنْ كَادَ لَيُسْلِمُ.
Ash-Sharid said, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, asked me to recite the poetry of Umayya ibn Abi's-Salt and I recited
it. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, began
to say, 'Go on, go on!' until I had recited a hundred lines.' The Prophet
said, 'If only he had become Muslim.'"
'A'isha said, "Poetry is both good and bad. Take the good and leave
the bad. I have related some of the poetry of Ka'b ibn Malik. That included
an ode of forty verses and some less than that."
