What is the ruling on listening to songs, and what is the evidence for it?

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on listening to songs? What is the evidence for it? And what is your advice to those who listen to songs? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Listening to songs is forbidden. The evidence for this is the saying of Allah the Exalted: . And there is the hadith: "It is singing." As it came in the interpretation of the verse from Ibn Mas'ud and others among the scholars. Also, among the evidence for the prohibition of singing is what came in Sahih al-Bukhari that a group in the end times will make lawful hara (meaning fornication), silk (worn by men), khamr (intoxicants), and ma'azif (musical instruments). Ma'azif are instruments of singing and instruments of amusement. So amusement is forbidden. And there is the hadith: without knowledge, and they take it as a mockery.