In these days, the days of summer, Islamic weddings are numerous; some of them bring in bands with the hand drum and other instruments and they dance; is this permissible?

The questioner: Shaykh, in these days, the days of summer, Islamic weddings are numerous, so some of them bring in bands, and they bring the hand drum and they bring other instruments like the drum and the like, which approaches what is forbidden and the prohibition of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in the hadith: , so he taught usThe Shaykh : onAl-Halabi- may Allah reward him with good - the prohibition of the hand drum, but there is an innovation they have introduced in Jordan in Zarqa, which they call the Islamic Jufiyyah; meaning a dabkah, and they sit and become like the Bedouins of al-Dahiyah or the like; is this permissible?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible.

The questioner: Is there a hadith about this?

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner: What do we rely on in responding to them?

The Shaykh: We rely on the fact that it is from amusement in which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is not mentioned and in which Islamic etiquette is not observed, and not every issue has an explicit, decisive text; because the evidence of the Shari'ah is the Qur'an, the Sunnah, scholarly consensus, derivation, and independent legal reasoning, so this is the concern of the scholars, so the evidence is with them and not with the common people, this is what can be answered now.