Masʿūd, used to split them open.

What I have stated is further corroborated by what al-Khallāl relates (p. 28) from Yaʿqūb ibn Bakhtān: Abū ʿAbd Allāh was asked about beating the frame drum (daff) at a wedding so long as there was no singing, and he expressed no dislike for that. He was then asked about the daff when someone has died; he saw no harm in smashing it and said, “The companions of ʿAbd Allāh used to seize the frame drums from the boys in the alleyways and rip them apart.”

Ibn Abī Shaybah also transmits the whole statement about those companions (9/57) with a sound chain.

To sum up, we clear ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar—may Allah be pleased with him—of having bought the slave-girl so that she might play the ʿūd; the stronger evidence has already been presented. In any case, no proof counts except the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet ﷺ—particularly when ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who surpassed him in knowledge and legal understanding, declared: “Enough for you today of the pipe of Satan.”¹

There is another view that deserves scrutiny: al-Shawkānī attributed to Shuʿbah that he heard a pandore in the house of the well-known hadith scholar al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr.

I say: The basis of this is what al-ʿUqaylī records in al-Duʿafāʾ (4/237) through Wahb—namely, Ibn Jarīr—from Shuʿbah, who said: “I went to the home of al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr and heard the sound of a pandore coming from it, so I turned back without asking him about it. Later I said to myself, ‘Why did you not ask him? Perhaps he did not know.’”

I add: its chain back to Shuʿbah is authentic, and from it we learn that it is impermissible to lump al-Minhāl