Narrated Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna and Muhammad ibn Bashshar: They said: Narrated Muhammad ibn Ja'far: Narrated Shu'bah, from Qatadah, from Yunus ibn Jubayr, from Muhammad ibn Sa'd, from Sa'd, from the Prophet (peace be upon him), who said: "That the belly of one of you should be filled with pus that consumes it is better than that it be filled with poetry."