This is a strange ḥadīth from this chain of transmission; only Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj raised it to the Prophet (marfūʿan) on the authority of Ibn Abī Ghaniyyah, while others narrated this ḥadīth from Ibn Abī Ghaniyyah as a statement of a Companion (mawqūfan).

This ḥadīth has also been narrated through other chains from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ.

On this topic, there are also reports from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, Ibn ʿAbbās, ʿĀʾishah, Buraydah, and Kathīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from his father, from his grandfather.

3058 — Qutaybah narrated to us, saying: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from Simāk ibn Ḥarb, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Indeed, among poetry there is wisdom."

This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth.

(1) A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth by virtue of corroborating evidence; narrated by Abū Dāwūd (5011) and Ibn Mājah (3756). It is also found in Musnad Aḥmad (2424) and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (5778) and (5780).

On this topic, there are reports from several Companions, which we have mentioned in al-Musnad.

His saying: "Indeed, among poetry there is wisdom" — Ibn al-Athīr said in al-Nihāyah 1/419: i.e., among poetry there is beneficial speech that restrains from ignorance and folly and forbids them. It is said that what is meant is the exhortations and proverbs from which people benefit. Al-ḥukm means knowledge, understanding, and judging with justice; it is the verbal noun of ḥakama yaḥkumu. It is also narrated as "Indeed, among poetry there is ḥikmah," which carries the same meaning as al-ḥukm.