Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)
كتاب الأدب
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What kinds of poetry, Rajaz and Huda is allowed
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ENGLISH
Narrated Abu Musa:
The Prophet (ﷺ) heard a man praising another man and he was exaggerating in his praise. The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him). "You have destroyed (or cut) the back of the man."
ARABIC
أَهْلَكْتُمْ ـ أَوْ قَطَعْتُمْ ـ ظَهْرَ الرَّجُلِ