The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Shield your honor with your wealth."They asked, "Messenger of Allah, how do we shield our honor with our wealth?"He replied, "By giving to the poet, and to anyone whose tongue you fear."
قال رسول الله ﷺ: ذبوا بأموالكم عن أعراضكم، قالوا: يا رسول الله، كيف نذب بأموالنا عن أعراضنا؟ قال: يعطى الشاعر، ومن تخافون من لسانه.
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Hamza bin Yusuf Sahmi narrated it in Tarikh Jurjan (p. 223), from Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Ibrahim Ismaili, who said, Ibn Umayr narrated to us, who said, Sayyar bin Nasr bin Sayyar Bazzaz narrated to us, who said, Haytham bin Ayub Taliqani narrated to us, who said, Sahl bin Abdul-Rahman Jurjani narrated to us, who said, Muhammad bin Mutarrif narrated to us, from Muhammad bin Munkadir, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Abu Hurairah, who said, then he mentioned it.Its chain is hasan on account of Sahl bin Abdul-Rahman Jurjani, about whom Abu Hatim said, "A shaykh," in Jarh wa Tadil (4/201).