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السنن الكبرى للبيهقي
Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi
كتاب الشهادات
Book of Testimonies
باب: : الرجل يتخذ الغلام والجارية المغنيين، ويجمع عليهما ويغنيان
Chapter: A man who keeps a singing slave boy and slave girl, gathers people to them and they sing
Bayhaqi 21020 — A man who keeps a singing slave boy and slave girl
قَالَ الشَّافِعِيُّ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ: فَهَذَا سَفَهٌ تُرَدُّ بِهِ شَهَادَتُهُ، وَهُوَ فِي الْجَارِيَةِ أَكْثَرُ، مِنْ قِبَلِ أَنَّ فِيهِ سَفَهًا وَدِيَاثَةً ".
Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "This is foolishness for which his testimony is rejected, and in the case of a slave-girl it is even worse, because in it there is both foolishness and pandering (diyathah)."
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ، أنبأ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ الْقَاضِي، ثنا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ، ثنا آدَمُ، ثنا وَرْقَاءُ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجِيحٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، فِي قَوْلِهِ: {وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَشْتَرِي لَهْوَ الْحَدِيثِ} [لقمان: ٦] قَالَ: " هُوَ اشْتِرَاؤُهُ الْمُغَنِّي وَالْمُغَنِّيَةَ بِالْمَالِ الْكَثِيرِ، وَالِاسْتِمَاعُ إِلَيْهِ وَإِلَى مِثْلِهِ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ ".
Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) says concerning this saying of Allah Almighty: "And among the people is he who buys idle talk" [Surah Luqman: 6]: What is meant is one who buys male and female singers for a great deal of wealth, then listens to falsehood from them.
