Someone asked Ayesha, "Did the Prophet ﷺ ever recite any poetry?"She replied, "He used to recite verses of Ibn Rawahah, and he would also recite the line, 'And news will come to you from one you did not commission to bring it.'"
قيل لعائشة: هل كان النبي ﷺ يتمثل بشيء من الشعر؟ قالت: كان يتمثل بشعر ابن رواحة، ويتمثل، ويقول: ويأتيك بالأخبار من لم تزود.
It was narrated by Tirmidhi (2848), and this is his wording, by Ahmad (25071), and by Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (867), all of them through Sharik, from Miqdam bin Shurayh, from his father, and he related it. Tirmidhi said, "This is a hasan sahih hadith." I say, its chain is hasan because of Sharik, who is Ibn Abdullah Nakhai, the judge of Wasit and later of Kufa. He was truthful, but his memory changed after he took up the judgeship. However, he did not err in the wording found in Tirmidhi, where he says, "He used to recite the poetry of Ibn Rawaha, and he would recite it and say..." He did not attribute it to Ibn Rawaha, unlike what happened in his narration as recorded by Ahmad and by Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad, where Sharik erred here by attributing it to Abdullah bin Rawaha.I say, the correct view is that the line mentioned belongs to Tarafa bin Abd in his Muallaqa. The complete verse is his saying,"The days will reveal to you what you did not know, and one you did not provision will bring you the news."The hadith of Ibn Abbas carries the same meaning. He said, "It is a prophetic saying, 'and one you did not provision will bring you the news.'" It was narrated by Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (793), who said, Abu Naeem told us, who said, Sufyan told us, from Layth, from Tawus, from Ibn Abbas, who said what has been mentioned. Layth bin Abu Salim is daif.It was also narrated by Ibn Abu Shayba (26537), by Bazzar in Kashf Astar (2106), and by Tabarani (11/288), all of them through Zaida, from Simak bin Harb, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas, who said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to recite from poetry, 'and one you did not provision will bring you the news.'"Simak bin Harb is inconsistent in his narration from Ikrima. Among the signs of his inconsistency is that he sometimes narrated it this way, and at other times narrated it from Ikrima from Ayesha, as Bukhari narrated in Adab al-Mufrad (792) through Walid bin Abu Thawr, from Simak, from Ikrima, with the same wording, thereby raising the hadith back to Ayesha.