662/857 عن مطرف قال: صحبت عمران بن حصين من الكوفة إلى البصرة، فقلّ منزل ينزله إلا وهو ينشدني شعراً: وقال: "إن في المعاريض لمندوحة عن الكذب".
662/857 From Mutarrif who said: I accompanied Imran ibn Husayn from Kufa to Basra, and there was hardly a place where he stayed except that he would recite poetry to me, and he said: "Indeed, in ambiguous speech there is an alternative to lying."