´It was narrated that Fadalah bin ‘Ubaid said:` “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Allah listens more attentively to a man with a beautiful voice who recites Qur’an out loud than the master of a singing slave listens to his slave.’”
Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
The aforementioned narration has been declared weak in its chain of transmission (isnad) by our esteemed researcher and other scholars.
Meanwhile, the researchers of Al-Mawsu‘ah Al-Hadithiyyah have also written that this narration is weak in its chain.
However, the first part of the narration—that Allah, the Exalted, attentively listens to the recitation of a person with a good and beautiful voice—
is sufficiently supported by the hadith narrated from Abu Hurairah (radi Allahu anhu) which is found in Sahih Bukhari.
Therefore, except for the last sentence of the aforementioned narration, “as much as one attentively listens to a singer,”
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the rest is authentic.
For details, see: (Al-Mawsu‘ah Al-Hadithiyyah, Musnad al-Imam Ahmad: 372/39)
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 1340