Sayyiduna Khawwat bin Jubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We set out with Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) to perform Hajj, and we travelled in a caravan in which were Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah and Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with them both). The people said: O Khawwat! Sing something for us. So he sang for them, and they said: Sing to us from the poetry of Dirar. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Leave Abu Abdullah to sing from the offspring of his own heart, meaning his own poetry. So I kept singing to them until, when the pre-dawn time came, Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Hold back your tongue, O Khawwat, for we have reached the pre-dawn time. Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Come over to a man who, I hope, is no worse than Umar. He says: So Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah (may Allah be pleased with him) and I moved aside, and we continued like that until we prayed Fajr.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الحج / 9185
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
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