—Yūnus ibn Ibrāhīm informed us—in Aden—ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥaḍramī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Baylamānī narrated to me, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Learn poetry, for it contains wisdom and memorable examples.”
This ḥadith has a weak chain of transmission (1).
238 – al-Ghaḍā’irī, ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh *
The imam, reliable authority, and devoted worshiper: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Ghaḍā’irī, the foremost ḥadith scholar of Aleppo and the senior musnid of Syria.
He narrated from: ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī; Bishr ibn al-Walīd; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Jumaḥī; Abū Ibrāhīm al-Tarjumānī; ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Qawārīrī; Bundār; and several others.
Those who reported from him include: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAdī; Abū Bakr ibn al-Muqriʾ; the judge ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥalabī; and many others besides.
Al-Khaṭīb declared him trustworthy.