The Prohibition of Late-Night Conversation After Isha: Is It Disliked or Forbidden, and What Is the Ruling on Playing Ball After Isha?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, is the prohibition in the hadith regarding late-night conversation for dislike or for prohibition? And what is the ruling on playing ball after Isha, even if it is only one day a week?
The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked sleeping before Isha and conversation after it, but this is not for prohibition, except if it leads to missing the Fajr prayer. In that case, it becomes forbidden, and its prohibition is from the perspective of blocking the means to harm.
As for playing ball after Isha, whether once a week or every day, we first ask: how do these people play ball? Sometimes they play in an unacceptable manner; you find their thighs exposed, or part of the thigh or most of the thigh, and they are young men. The exposure of a young man's thigh is undoubtedly a trial. Furthermore, the matter may lead them to spend most of the night playing, causing them to miss the congregational prayer or miss the prayer within its time.
Therefore, I see no harm in playing ball in principle, as long as it does not occupy one from an obligatory duty or lead one into something forbidden, in which case it becomes forbidden for this reason. Yes.
The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disliked sleeping before Isha and conversation after it, but this is not for prohibition, except if it leads to missing the Fajr prayer. In that case, it becomes forbidden, and its prohibition is from the perspective of blocking the means to harm.
As for playing ball after Isha, whether once a week or every day, we first ask: how do these people play ball? Sometimes they play in an unacceptable manner; you find their thighs exposed, or part of the thigh or most of the thigh, and they are young men. The exposure of a young man's thigh is undoubtedly a trial. Furthermore, the matter may lead them to spend most of the night playing, causing them to miss the congregational prayer or miss the prayer within its time.
Therefore, I see no harm in playing ball in principle, as long as it does not occupy one from an obligatory duty or lead one into something forbidden, in which case it becomes forbidden for this reason. Yes.