CONTINUATION (13) Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Listening to music and singing is sinful. Sitting at such gatherings is fisq (immoral transgression). Deriving pleasure from it is kufr. (Nailul Autaar) (14) Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: I have been sent (by Allah) to destroy musical instruments……..The earning of a male singer and a female singer is haraam. The earning of zina is haraam. It is incumbent on Allah not to allow a body nourished by haraam, entry into Jahannum. (Kaf-fur Ruaa) The evil of music and singing is sufficiently abominable to warrant it being lumped together with zina (fornication). one Hadith describes singing as the spell of shaitaan. (15) Hadhrat Ibn Abbaas (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: I have been sent (by Allah Taala) to destroy the musical drum (tablah) and the flute. (Jamul Jawaami) The tablah and other forms of musical drums are not to be confused with the duff for which there is limited permissibility. (16) Hadhrat Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: The earning of a singer is haraam and her singing is haraam. (Nailul Autaar) (17) Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) said: Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) prohibited beating of the duff (drum) and the sound of the flute. (Nailul Autaar) From this Hadith as well as others, the ambiguity about the duff is eliminated. It is clear from several Ahaadith that the general ruling of prohibition applies to even the duff. However, an exception has been made for only the duff for the Days of Eid and marriage occasions provided no haraam acts are committed. This Hadith has the effect of abrogation. It cancels out the other narrations in which the duff was allowed. The fact that Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) and other Sahaabah too propagated the general prohibition of the duff even after the demise of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) is sufficient substantiation for the abrogating force of this Hadith as well as other Ahaadith which also mention the prohibition of the duff. (18) Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated: Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) forbade beating the duff, playing the harp and blowing the flute. (Kanzul Ummaal) (19) Hadhrat Ibn Masud (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Verily, singing generates hypocrisy in the heart just as water causes farm-produce to grow. (Baihqi) (20) Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Love for singing germinates hypocrisy in the heart just as water causes plants to grow. (21) Hadhrat Ibn Masud (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Beware of listening to musical instruments and singing, for verily, both these acts germinate nifaaq (hypocrisy) in the heart just as water causes vegetables to grow. (Kaf-fur Ruaa) (22) Hadhrat Anas (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Whoever sits and listens to a singing girl, Allah will pour molten lead into his ears on the Day of Qiyaamah. (Ibn Asaakir) On what basis now can the permissibility of music and singing be argued? The severity of the punishment should be an adequate deterrent to abstain even if some narrations indicate permissibility. (23) Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Whoever dies while he has a singing slave girl, do not perform Janaazah Salaat for him. (Haakim) (24) Safwaan Bin Umayyah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Amr Bin Qurrah said (to Rasulullah - sallallahu alayhi wasallam): I am very unfortunate. I do not see any way for acquiring my rizq except by means of my duff. Therefore, grant me permission to sing (i.e. with my duff) such songs which will be devoid of any immorality (evil). Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) replied: I do not give you permission. There is no honour and no goodness (in what you are saying). O enemy of Allah! You are a liar. Most certainly, Allah has ordained for you halaal rizq, but you have chosen what Allah has made haraam for you in place of what He has made halaal for you of the sustenance He has decreed for you. (Baihqi, Tibraani, Dailmi) The fact that this person sought permission for singing with his duff is abundant and clear testimony for his awareness of the prohibition, hence he requested permission. If music and singing were lawful, there would not have been the need for him to seek permission from Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). No one had asked Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to farm or to trade. Anyone who inclined to these professions would readily become involved therein. Since these are permissible activities, there was no need to seek permission. But not so with music and singing. The awareness of the prohibition of the voice of shaitaan constrained the man to seek exemption and permission. But he was very harshly rebuffed by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) who branded him the enemy of Allah. This Hadith also refutes the contention of the permissibility of good songs - songs which are devoid of immoral content. The Hadith is also an adequate response for those who in this age believe that without dealing in bank-riba, it is not possible to progress financially. They deceive themselves into believing that sufficient halaal avenues for the acquisition of halaal rizq no longer exist. Those who proffer such contentions are termed enemies of Allah by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Allah Taala has ordained halaal ways for our sustenance. Whoever avers the contrary is a liar. Man in his greed substitutes the halaal ways and means for haraam methods, labouring under the extreme misconception of gaining abundant wealth by means of the unlawful ways he has appropriated for himself. Ultimately he will be frustrated and fail in his endeavours to achieve what he has targeted. one will not gain a cent more than the divinely stipulated and decreed amount. (25) Hadhrat Ibn Abbaas (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: On the Day of Qiyaamah, Allah Azza Wa Jal will proclaim: Where are those who had protected their ears and their eyes from the musical instruments of shaitaan? (Allah Taala will instruct the Malaaikah): Separate them (from the multitudes of people). They (the Angels) will separate them, and have them seated on dunes of musk and ambergris then Allah Taala will say to the Malaaikah: Recite to them My Tasbeeh and My Tamjeed. The Malaaikah will then recite to them with such beautiful voices, the likes of which no one had ever heard. This Hadith has been narrated by Allaamah Ibn Hajar Makki from Dailmi. The Sahaabi narrating it is Hadhrat Ibn Abbaas (radhiyallahu anhu). Allaamah Ali Muttaqi also narrates this Hadith, but from the Sahaabi, Hadhrat Jaabir (radhiyallahu anhu)-Kanzul Ummaal. Allamah Muhammad Bin Muhammad Maghribi narrates this Hadith from Hadhrat Bin Al-Munkadir (Jamul Fawaaid). Imaam Tha-aalabi also narrates it from Muhammad Bin Al-Munkadir, but from Ibn Wahab. - (Jawaahirul Hassaan) Those who indulge in the haraam music and singing of this world, will be denied the music of Jannat. (26) Hadhrat Abu Musa Ashari (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Whoever listens to the sound of singing, he will not be given permission to listen to the (beautiful) voices of the Ruhaaniyyeen in Jannat. When it was asked: Who are the Ruhaaniyyeen? Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: The Qaaris of Jannat. (Kanzul Ummaal) In his Tafseer, Imaam Qurtubi comments: We have mentioned this Hadith in Kitaabut Tathkirah along with other similar examples. Thus, he who consumes wine will be denied the pure drink (of Jannat) in the Aakhirah. He who wears silk will not wear silk in the Aakhirah, etc. All this is correct in meaning…… (27) Hadhrat Ibn Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates: Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) prohibited singing and listening to singing, and (he also prohibited) gossip. (Kaf-fur Ruaa) (28) Zaid Bin Arqam (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates: Once a youth while singing passed by Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) who was walking in a street of Madinah. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Alas! O young man! Why do you not sing with the Quraan (i.e. recite it beautifully instead of singing songs)? He repeated this statement several times. (Dailmi) (29) Hadhrat Abu Umaamah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: When someone raises his voice with singing, Allah sends two shaitaans who sit on his shoulders striking his breast with their heels until he stops (singing). (Tibraani) (30) Hadhrat Abdur Rahmaan Bin Auf (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: I have forbidden two ignorant immoral voices: (The first)- the sounds of futility at the time of merrymaking, and the musical instruments of shaitaan. (The second)- the wailing sounds at the time of calamity when the face is struck and the garments are torn. (Haakim in Mustadrak) (31) Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: The bell is among the musical instruments of shaitaan. (Abu Dawood) (32) Kisaan narrates that Hadhrat Muaawiyyah (radhiyallahu anhu) stated in his Khutbah: Verily, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) forbade seven things, and I too forbid you from these things. Know that these things are: Loud wailing (on occasions of death), singing, pictures……… (Tibraani) (33) In a lengthy Hadith narrated by Hadhrat Abu Umaamah (radhiyallahu anhu), it is mentioned that on the occasion of the expulsion of shaitaan from the heaven and his exile to earth, he (Iblees) supplicated to Allah Taala: O my Rabb! You have exiled me to earth and you have made me accursed………Now, therefore bestow to me a caller (who can call to my path). Allah Taala said: (Your caller) is musical instruments……….. (Tibraani) (34) Allaamah Qurtubi, in his Tafseer, narrates the following Hadith: Verily, once when Abdullah Bin Masud (radhiyallahu anhu) heard someone singing, he hastily left the place. This reached Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). He thereupon commented: Indeed, Ibn Umm Abd (i.e. Abdullah Ibn Masud) is an honourable abd (slave ofAllah). Two salient facts emerge from this Hadith: one- Hadhrat Abdullah Bin Masud (radhiyallahu anhu) was aware of the prohibition of music and singing, hence he hastily left the place. Two- Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) approved of his action and commended him. This too clearly indicates the evil of singing and music. (35) Hadhrat Abu Burzah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated: We were with the Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) on a journey when he heard two men singing. The one was responding to the other (by means of singing poetry). Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) then said: Look who these two are. They (the Sahaabah) said: They are so and so (naming them). Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) then cursed, saying: O Allah! Cast them upside down in Jahannum. (Majmauz Zawaaid) The gravity of the prohibition of singing and music should be apparent from the vehemence of the curse of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). (36) Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Verily, Allah Taala sent me as a Mercy and a Guide to the worlds, and He has commanded me to destroy musical instruments…… (37) Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrates: Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: Verily, the bell is of the musical instruments of shaitaan. (Muslim and Abu Dawood) (38) Hadhrat Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: The Malaaikah do no associate with a group in which there is a dog or a bell. (Muslim and Abu Dawood) (39) Hadhrat Aishah (radhiyallahu anha) narrated: Verily, Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) instructed that all bells be cut off from the necks of the camels on the Day of Badr. (Musnad Ahmad) (40) Hadhrat Umar (radhiyallahu anhu) narrated: I heard Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) saying: Verily, with every bell is a shaitaan. (Abu Dawood) The tinkling and jingling of bells are also associated with shaitaani music, hence the stringent prohibition. Now that these numerous Ahaadith in which Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) severely condemns music and singing has dawned on those who lacked awareness, there cannot be a Muslim with a healthy Imaan who will still believe in the permissibility of the voice of shaitaan.
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