5012 — Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Faris narrated to us, Sa'id ibn Muhammad narrated to us, Abu Tumaylah narrated to us, Abu Ja'far al-Nahwi 'Abdullah ibn Thabit narrated to me, Sakhr ibn 'Abdullah ibn Buraydah narrated to me, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, saying: "Indeed, some eloquence is magic, and indeed, some knowledge is ignorance, and indeed, some poetry is wisdom, and indeed, some speech is impoverishment."

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This is also found in *Musnad Ahmad* (2424) and *Sahih Ibn Hibban* (5778) and (5780), and we have mentioned the rest of the hadiths of this chapter in *al-Musnad*.

His saying: "Indeed, some poetry is wisdom" (*ḥukman*): with a ḍammah on the ḥā' and sukūn on the kāf, meaning wisdom (*ḥikmah*). Some have recorded it with a kasrah on the ḥā' and a fatḥah on the kāf, as a plural of *ḥikmah*.

Ibn al-Athir said in *al-Nihayah*: meaning: indeed, some poetry is beneficial speech that prevents ignorance and foolishness and forbids them. It is said that what is meant by it is the exhortations and proverbs from which people benefit. And *al-ḥukm* is knowledge, understanding, and judging with justice, and it is a verbal noun of *ḥakama yaḥkumu*. It is also narrated as: "Indeed, some poetry is wisdom" (*ḥikmah*), which carries the same meaning as *al-ḥukm*.

(1) A sound hadith due to corroborating evidence, except for his saying: "and indeed, some knowledge is ignorance" and his saying: "and indeed, some speech is impoverishment." This chain is weak due to the unknown status of Abu Ja'far 'Abdullah ibn Thabit and Sakhr ibn 'Abdullah. Abu Tumaylah is Yahya ibn Wadih al-Ansari. And Sa'id ibn Muhammad is Ibn Sa'id al-Jarmi.

It was also narrated by Abu Shaybah 8/692, and al-Bazzar (2100 — *Kashf al-Astar*) via the route of Husam ibn al-Misk, from 'Abdullah ibn Buraydah, from his father, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording: "Indeed, some poetry is wisdom."

Al-Quda'i narrated in *Musnad al-Shihab* (961) via the route of 'Imarah ibn Abi Hafsah, from 'Abdullah ibn Buraydah, from Sa'sa'ah ibn Sawhan, from 'Ali, and he mentioned it. In its chain there is one who has been criticized.

The following support his saying: "Indeed, some eloquence is magic, and indeed, some poetry is wisdom": the hadith of Ibn 'Umar previously mentioned by the compiler as number (5007), the hadith of Ubayy ibn Ka'b previously mentioned (5010), and what came before it from the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas.