The ruling on listening to singing and Ibn Hazm’s opinion on it
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The questioner:
A questioner asks, Shaykh, he says: What is the ruling on listening to singing? He says one of my colleagues said that the scholar Ibn Hazm stated that singing is forbidden, and that it is a disease of the heart, and something to that effect. He says: I want your honor to respond to this question and clarify the ruling.
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
A questioner asks about the ruling on singing, or rather listening to singing. He says that Ibn Hazm has an opinion on singing.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Hazm, or Ibn Hazm himself? Ibn Hazm. Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, that Ibn Hazm says he has an opinion on whether…?
The Shaykh:
Yes, Ibn Hazm has an opinion that permits singing. Ibn Hazm (may Allah have mercy on him) permits singing and differs from the majority, but Ibn Hazm’s opinion is incorrect. The correct view is that singing and listening to it are forbidden, because it is idle talk. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Al-Qasas 28:55] So Allah, singing is it. And the evidence that it is so is Ibn Mas’ud’s interpretation of His saying (Exalted is He): [Luqman 31:6]. Ibn Mas’ud said: It is the singing. By Allah, it is the singing. By Allah, it is the singing. By Allah, it is the singing. Three times Ibn Mas’ud swore that idle talk is singing.
And others among the Companions said the same, such as Jabir ibn Abdullah and others, as mentioned in Ibn al-Qayyim’s *Ighathat al-Lahfan* and in his book *al-Sama’ al-Kabir*. He reported the consensus, or near-consensus, that the idle talk in the verse is singing. So the fact that Ibn Hazm exercised independent reasoning and erred, his error is refuted, and the correct view is prohibition. Because it is idle talk. Yes.
A questioner asks, Shaykh, he says: What is the ruling on listening to singing? He says one of my colleagues said that the scholar Ibn Hazm stated that singing is forbidden, and that it is a disease of the heart, and something to that effect. He says: I want your honor to respond to this question and clarify the ruling.
The Shaykh:
Repeat the question.
The questioner:
A questioner asks about the ruling on singing, or rather listening to singing. He says that Ibn Hazm has an opinion on singing.
The Shaykh:
Ibn Hazm, or Ibn Hazm himself? Ibn Hazm. Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, that Ibn Hazm says he has an opinion on whether…?
The Shaykh:
Yes, Ibn Hazm has an opinion that permits singing. Ibn Hazm (may Allah have mercy on him) permits singing and differs from the majority, but Ibn Hazm’s opinion is incorrect. The correct view is that singing and listening to it are forbidden, because it is idle talk. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
And when they hear ill speech, they turn away from it
وَإِذَا سَمِعُوا اللَّغْوَ أَعْرَضُوا عَنْهُAnd of the people is he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allah without knowledge and who takes it in ridicule
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ لِيُضِلَّ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَيَتَّخِذَهَا هُزُوًاAnd others among the Companions said the same, such as Jabir ibn Abdullah and others, as mentioned in Ibn al-Qayyim’s *Ighathat al-Lahfan* and in his book *al-Sama’ al-Kabir*. He reported the consensus, or near-consensus, that the idle talk in the verse is singing. So the fact that Ibn Hazm exercised independent reasoning and erred, his error is refuted, and the correct view is prohibition. Because it is idle talk. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-38-قضايا فقهية - 02|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (0:53)
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