Recordings › In Depth: Is Music allowed in Islam? | Mufti Abu Layth · 18 Sep 2019 › Segment 2 of 12
Which scholars held that music is permissible, and what did Imam Malik's school say?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenAl-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani all found no sahih hadith prohibiting music, and the people of Madinah, including the qadi Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, held it permissible, with some transmitting this as Imam Malik's own position. Only Allah and His Messenger are authorities, so a refutation needs a sahih hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth challenges the critic, a Salafi, to bring a single sahih hadith, and answers the charge that he quotes random opinions. He reads from al-Shawkani's Nayl al-Awtar, which after gathering all the hadith on music lists those who said it is permissible, among them the people of Madinah, the Zahiris and a group of Sufis [?], and reports that many great scholars declared all these hadith weak, quoting Ibn Hazm and Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, the Maliki judge of Muslim Spain, who said in his Ahkam al-Quran that not a single hadith on the prohibition of music is sahih, and the muhaddith Ibn Tahir [?], who said not a letter of them is sahih. He says nobody is an authority in religion except God and His Messenger, so what is needed is a conclusive, unbroken chain to the Prophet; Ibn Hazm said that whatever is brought can only be traced to someone other than the Prophet. He quotes the Maliki al-Fakihani [?], whose commentary he has, that he knows of no clear text in the Book of Allah or the words of His Messenger that prohibits music. He then lists those who defended it or practised it: Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni in his Nihaya [?] relates that the companion Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr owned singing girls; Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani relates a companion's descendant [?] listening to music; al-Shawkani relates that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, whom the critic himself quotes, listened to music before becoming caliph; Tawus, the student of Ibn Abbas, and Sa'd ibn Ibrahim, the qadi of Madinah before Imam Malik, held it permissible; al-Ruyani [?] from al-Qaffal [?] relates that the madhhab of Imam Malik is the permissibility of music and instruments, as did Abu Mansur [?]; Abu Talib al-Makki in Qut al-Qulub relates that Shu'ba heard instruments in the house of al-Minhal ibn Amr [?]; and Ibn Tahir's book on the subject shows there was no dispute among the people of Madinah that flutes and instruments were permissible. He concludes that anyone wishing to refute him should bring a sahih hadith, since the one brought, in Abu Dawud, al-Hakim [?] and al-Bayhaqi, has incredibly weak chains, and he finds it dire to have to correct a Salafi on hadith.
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Mufti Abu Layth holds that there is no sahih hadith prohibiting music, citing al-Shawkani, Ibn Hazm, Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi and al-Fakihani, and that since only Allah and His Messenger are authorities in religion, anyone refuting him must bring a sahih hadith.
“there isn't a single sahi hadith that you can bring in this pub Allah at least bring me a sahi hadith”
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single letter from these a hadith Asahi one Murad obviously and we're talking about hadith going back to the messenger of allah otherwise nobody is an authority except God and His Messenger on matters of religion right so you bring to me what a line is messenger I have said in clear conclusive unbroken unblemished non blemished chains as I need and I will accept what you're saying it not hasn't says in whom low as Nadal hadith and why hidden if they
brought even one hadith on the prohibition of music for hawala very Rasul Allah they can only bring it to other than the prophet of God not to the prophet of God and he says well I heard Jaffee I had in tuna let me quote another Don Maliki al-fatiha knee whose commentary I have here by the way on right but it's all whose commentary has been brought into print and I'm waiting for his commentary on the result of ignorance a din Maliki fake to be brought out as well soon now far kahani says Lam alum I do not know fee Khattab Allah he will have his
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played about father Laban a paw here in his book on the permissibility of music shows that that there was no dispute between the people of Medina that flutes and musical instruments were permissible and then if Natasha says this is what the law here unanimously went to and after we say Islamist elephant knuckle famous battle mark that nobody is there is no dispute about the great khadi of Medina before Imam Malik right Sardegna Brahim the great coffee from the table in Ibrahim if Mossad and him listening
to music and saying it's permissible there's no dispute about that right so these are some things I bring to you people some things Allahu Akbar so look when you want to refute me by all means refute me but at least bring the sahih hadith the only you could have brought stronger hadith than the one you brought the one you brought in El Elena young bitten me [ __ ] my young [ __ ] old man and buckle in Abu Daoud and ask him and a lamian upon my malice behind me and in a very happy and these books these are
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