Sahih al-BukhariVolume 8 • Book 73 • Hadith 176

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab) — Hadith 176

English Translation

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle; said, "It is better for anyone of you that the inside of his body be filled with pus which may consume his body, than it be filled with poetry."

This hadith is from Sahih al-Bukhari, the most rigorously authenticated collection in Islamic scholarship. No editorial opinion is added.

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