'Amr bin Sharid reported on the authority of his father that there was in the delegation of Thaqif a leper. Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sent a message to him: We have accepted your allegiance, so you may go.
'Amr bin Sharid reported his father as saying: One day when I rode behind Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) , he said (to me): Do you remember any Poetry of Umayya bin Abu Salt. I said: Yes. He said: Then go on. I recited a couplet, and he said: Go on. Then I again recited a couplet and he said: Go on. I recited one hundred couplets (of his poetry).
'Amr bin Sharid reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) asked him to recite poetrv, the rest of the hadith is the same, out with this addition: "He (that is Umayya bin Abu Sharid was about to become a muslim" and in the hadith transmitted on the authority, of Ibn Mahdi (the words are) "He was almost a Muslim in his poetry."