Hadith 130

And it is narrated to me by Muhammad Bin Al Hassan Bin Maie Al Alawy, from Salar Bin Habeysh Al Baghdadi, from Al Ameer, father of Al Fawaris the poet who said, ‘I attended a gathering of the minister Yahya Bin Hubeyra, and with me, on that day was a group from the artists, and people of knowledge, and in their gathering was the sheykh Abu Muhammad Al-Khashab Al-Laghwy, and the sheikh Abu Al-faraj Bin Al-Jowzi and others. A discussion flowed about the poetry of Abu Talib-asws Bin Abdul Muttalib-asws. The minister said, ‘How excellent were his-as poems, if only he-as these had been issued from the Eman’. I said (to myself), ‘By Allah-azwj! I shall answer the answer to draw closer to Allah-azwj’. I said, ‘O our master! And from where is it for you that these were not issued from the Eman? ’
He said, ‘If he-as had issued (these poems) from the Eman, he-as would have revealed it, and not concealed it’. I said, ‘If he-as had revealed it, there would have been no helper left for the Prophet-saww’. He (the narrator) said, ‘He was silent and did not respond with an answer, and there were taxes for me to give him, so I cut these off, and there were praises (written) for me, regarding him, in ink, so I washed these off, all of them’’. [206]