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Imam Malik ibn Anas· الإمام مالك بن أنسClassical Scholar

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Reported by al-Khallal in al-Amr bi al-Maʿruf & Ibn Abi Shaybah

Imam Malik was asked about singing and musical instruments and replied: "Only the corrupt among us do that" (Ibn Abi Shaybah, al-Mussanaf). His madhhab as recorded by his students considered ghina with instruments to be forbidden, in line with the explicit hadith: "There will be people from my Ummah who will make lawful fornication, silk, alcohol, and musical instruments" (Bukhari, taʿliq sahih).

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The Imam of Madinah ruled music with instruments to be the practice of the corrupt.

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