Abu Dawud

Benefits and Issues:
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This narration is weak.
However, in light of other authentic ahadith, the ruling is that listening to lamentation (noha) is also not permissible.

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By "noha" is meant crying over the deceased with loud voices and wailing—i.e., making a commotion, lamenting, pulling out hair, throwing dust on the head, and tearing clothes, etc.
However, apart from this, if tears flow due to the effect of grief and compassion, there is nothing blameworthy in it.

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Performing noha is forbidden (haram) and a major sin (kabirah).
Listening to it and attending such gatherings is also impermissible.
It is stated in the Noble Qur’an:
(“And do not help one another in sin and transgression.”) ( al-Ma’idah 2/5)
Do not cooperate with one another in sin and aggression.

Lexical Explanation:
«اَلنَّائِحَةَ» is derived from «نياحة». To enumerate and loudly proclaim the qualities, characteristics, and virtues of the deceased, to weep and wail.

Benefit: The aforementioned narration has been declared weak in its chain by our esteemed researcher; however, the prohibition of lamentation (nawh) is established in other authentic ahadith. For example, it is narrated from the freed slave of Mu'awiyah radi Allahu anhu, Jarir rahimahullah, who said: Mu'awiyah radi Allahu anhu delivered a sermon in the city of Hims, and during that sermon, he also said that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam forbade lamentation. [سنن ابن ماجه ، الجنائز ، حديث : 1580 ۔ والمعجم الكبير للطبراني : 373/19 ، حديث : 876]

In fact, the Noble Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam used to take a formal pledge from women not to perform lamentation, as will be narrated in the following hadith. Moreover, in the ahadith, there is a severe warning regarding this. It is narrated from Abu Malik Ash'ari radi Allahu anhu that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: “Lamentation is a custom of the pre-Islamic era (jahiliyyah). If a woman who performs lamentation dies without repenting, Allah will prepare for her garments of tar and a shirt of blazing fire.” [سنن ابن ماجه ، الجنائز ، باب ماجاء فى النهي عن النياحة ، حديث : 1581]

Likewise, it is narrated from Abdullah ibn Abbas radi Allahu anhuma that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said: “Lamenting over the deceased is a custom of the pre-Islamic era (jahiliyyah). If a woman who performs lamentation dies without repenting, she will be raised on the Day of Resurrection in such a state that her body will be clothed in shirts of tar, and then a shirt of blazing fire will be put on her.” [سنن ابن ماجه ، الجنائز ، حديث : 1582]

Similarly, in the narration from Ibn Umar radi Allahu anhuma, which is coming ahead, it is mentioned that the deceased is punished in the grave because of lamentation performed over him. This ruling and these warnings are not specific to women only; rather, if a man commits this crime, he will receive the same punishment on the Day of Resurrection. Women are mentioned in the ahadith because, among the Arabs, it was the women who used to perform lamentation.

The Prophetic instruction is: “Whoever slaps his cheeks, tears his collar, and calls out with the call of jahiliyyah is not from us.” [صحيح البخاري ، الجنائز ، حديث : 1297]

Men are also included in this. From these ahadith and other similar narrations, the prohibition of lamentation is clear. In fact, in a hasan (good) narration in Musnad Ahmad, it is reported that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam forbade accompanying a funeral procession in which there are women performing lamentation. In any case, from all these ahadith, the prohibition of lamentation and the warning against it are established. When performing lamentation is such a major sin, then listening to lamentation is, all the more so, a sin. «والله اعلم»