What is the evidence for the prohibition of singing with musical instruments?

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, there has been a lot of talk in the media these days, and this idea has been spread among the common people, namely that singing with musical instruments is permissible and that there is no explicit text prohibiting it, and that most of the narrations on this matter are either weak or fabricated. We ask you to clarify the correct evidence in this issue.

Answer:
The one who says this is well known; he has no knowledge. He is well known, we know him, everyone knows him. He has no knowledge that qualifies him to say this, but he said it—may Allah forgive us and them—he said it without knowledge. Did he study the hadiths and verses, and the words of the scholars, and know them, or not? No, he has none of that. He merely repeats the words of others, repeating the words of those who permit songs and musical instruments, repeating only their words without insight and without knowledge. So do not be deceived by his words.