Narrated to us Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah, narrated to us Hafs and Abu Mu‘awiyah—and narrated to us Abu Kurayb, narrated to us Abu Mu‘awiyah, both of them from al-A‘mash—and narrated to us Abu Sa‘id al-Ashajj, narrated to us Waki‘, narrated to us al-A‘mash, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "That a man's belly should be filled with pus that corrodes it is better than that it should be filled with poetry." Abu Bakr said: Except that Hafs did not say "that corrodes it."