سنن ابن ماجه
Ibn Majah
كتاب إقامة الصلاة والسنةEstablishing the Prayer and the Sunnah Regarding Them
. بَابُ : مَا جَاءَ فِي التَّقْلِيسِ يَوْمَ الْعِيدِChapter: What was narrated concerning Taqlis on the day of ‘Eid
Hadith 1302
اُردوEn
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا شَرِيكٌ ، عَنْ مُغِيرَةَ ، عَنْ عَامِرٍ ، قَالَ : شَهِدَ عِيَاضٌ الْأَشْعَرِيُّ عِيدًا بِالْأَنْبَارِ ، فَقَالَ : " مَا لِي لَا أَرَاكُمْ تُقَلِّسُونَ كَمَا كَانَ يُقَلَّسُ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ " .
´It was narrated that ‘Amir said:` “Iyad Al-Ash’ari was in Anbar at the time of ‘Eid, and he said: ‘Why is it that I do not see you engaged in Taqlis* as was done in the presence of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)?’” *Taqlis means to indulge in celebrations on a festive occasion.
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
➊ Anbār is the name of a city.
➋ The meaning of taqlīs is: on occasions of happiness, expressing joy through national games and sports, girls singing national songs, or playing the duff, etc. The mentioned narration is weak in its chain of transmission. However, from other narrations it is understood that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam permitted such things on occasions of happiness. But there is a difference: one is for household girls, within a limited domestic circle, to express happiness by playing the duff or singing national songs based on the virtues and achievements of their forefathers; and the other is for professional female singers to sing songs of a romantic, morally corrupt, dignity-robbing, and faith-destroying nature, or for professional immoral women to perform naked or semi-naked dances and displays of revelry. There is a world of difference between the two. The permissibility of the former cannot be used as evidence for the permissibility of the latter.
Great is the injustice of the person who, by using the narrations regarding the former, tries to justify the latter types of immoralities and evils, and thereby (na'udhu billah) tries to prove the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as a supporter of such indecencies, whereas he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to eradicate such immoralities, not to maintain or encourage them—may Allah guide them. Furthermore, even the former things are only permissible (mubah), not obligatory (fard), nor necessary (wajib), nor Sunnah, nor recommended (mustahabb). And it is an established principle that if a permissible (mubah) act becomes a means to something forbidden (haram), then that permissible act also becomes impermissible. And to protect people from the forbidden, even permissible acts are sometimes prohibited.
Therefore, those scholars who, on occasions like weddings, prohibit even these permissible things, their stance is closer to Islam from a strategic perspective. Because the matter does not remain limited to the duff alone; it extends to drums, musical instruments, bands, and even to mujra (public dance performances) and the open commission of immoralities and evils. May Allah protect us from it.
➊ Anbār is the name of a city.
➋ The meaning of taqlīs is: on occasions of happiness, expressing joy through national games and sports, girls singing national songs, or playing the duff, etc. The mentioned narration is weak in its chain of transmission. However, from other narrations it is understood that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam permitted such things on occasions of happiness. But there is a difference: one is for household girls, within a limited domestic circle, to express happiness by playing the duff or singing national songs based on the virtues and achievements of their forefathers; and the other is for professional female singers to sing songs of a romantic, morally corrupt, dignity-robbing, and faith-destroying nature, or for professional immoral women to perform naked or semi-naked dances and displays of revelry. There is a world of difference between the two. The permissibility of the former cannot be used as evidence for the permissibility of the latter.
Great is the injustice of the person who, by using the narrations regarding the former, tries to justify the latter types of immoralities and evils, and thereby (na'udhu billah) tries to prove the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as a supporter of such indecencies, whereas he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to eradicate such immoralities, not to maintain or encourage them—may Allah guide them. Furthermore, even the former things are only permissible (mubah), not obligatory (fard), nor necessary (wajib), nor Sunnah, nor recommended (mustahabb). And it is an established principle that if a permissible (mubah) act becomes a means to something forbidden (haram), then that permissible act also becomes impermissible. And to protect people from the forbidden, even permissible acts are sometimes prohibited.
Therefore, those scholars who, on occasions like weddings, prohibit even these permissible things, their stance is closer to Islam from a strategic perspective. Because the matter does not remain limited to the duff alone; it extends to drums, musical instruments, bands, and even to mujra (public dance performances) and the open commission of immoralities and evils. May Allah protect us from it.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1302
