Hadith 2168

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ الْقَطَّانِ ، حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيُّ ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُهَلَّبِ ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ الْإِفْرِيقِيِّ ، عَنْ أَبِي أُمَامَةَ ، قَالَ : " نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ بَيْعِ الْمُغَنِّيَاتِ ، وَعَنْ شِرَائِهِنَّ ، وَعَنْ كَسْبِهِنَّ ، وَعَنْ أَكْلِ أَثْمَانِهِنَّ " .
´It was narrated that Abu Umamah said:` "The Messenger of Allah, forbade selling or buying singing girls, and their wages, and consuming their price."
Hadith Reference سنن ابن ماجه / كتاب التجارات / 2168
Hadith Grading الألبانی: حسن  |  زبیر علی زئی: ضعيف, إسناده ضعيف, فيه علل منھا ضعف عبيد اللّٰه (بن زحر) الإفريقي (ضعيف / د 3293) وھو رواه عن علي بن يزيد ضعيف عند الترمذي (1282), وللحديث شواهد ضعيفة عند الطبراني (212/8 ح 7749) وغيره, انوار الصحيفه، صفحه نمبر 457
Hadith Takhrij « سنن الترمذی/البیوع 15 ( 1282 ) ، ( تحفة الأشراف : 4898 ) ( حسن ) » ( سند میں ابو المہلب ضعیف راوی ہیں ، لیکن متابعت کی وجہ سے حسن ہے ، ملاحظہ ہو : سلسلة الاحادیث الصحیحة ، للالبانی : 2922 )
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Explanation & Benefits
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:

The mentioned narration has been declared weak in its chain by our esteemed researcher, while other scholars have graded it as hasan.
In addition, from other evidences as well, it is found that the buying and selling of these items and earning from them is forbidden (haram).
For details, see: (Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah by al-Albani, no. 2922)
Therefore, even in the pre-Islamic era, the Arabs considered singing and music to be blameworthy, so women from noble families would avoid it. However, slave girls would sing and play music to entertain their masters and their friends, or to receive rewards for singing.
The Arabs of the Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic period) used to tell their slave girls to go and earn.
They would earn money for their owners either through music and singing or through prostitution.
Islam has declared such earnings to be haram.
It is not permissible for slave girls to earn in this manner.


Nowadays, music and singing have been labeled as “art” and made a means of earning.
From the perspective of Islamic law, this is not permissible.
Acting in immodest roles in films and adopting modeling as a profession also fall into the same category.


If singing slave girls are not purchased for the purpose of listening to or performing music, but rather for household chores and other permissible services, then it is not prohibited. Similarly, if at the time of sale they are not presented as artists in order to demand a higher price, but are sold as ordinary slave girls, then it will not be haram.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 2168
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Commentary: 1؎ :
Because this leads towards acts of immorality and sin.

Note:

(In the chain of narration, both Ubaydullah bin Zahr and Ali bin Yazid bin Jud'an are weak narrators,
but the chain of Ibn Majah is of Hasan (good) grade.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 1282
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
There are some people who purchase idle amusements so that they may lead others astray from the path of Allah (Luqman: 6)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3195
Shaykh Muhammad Ibrahim bin Basheer
Benefit:
In this hadith, the condemnation of a woman who sings songs is mentioned, that giving money in exchange for listening to a woman's singing, and selling or buying her cassettes and CDs, or filling or having filled memory cards with them—all of these are haram (forbidden).
Source: Musnad al-Humaydi: Commentary by Muhammad Ibrahim bin Bashir, Page: 933