In sum, concerning this first hadith: its axis is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ghanm, who is unanimously reliable. The trustworthy Qays ibn ʿAṭiyyah narrated it from him, and—as shown earlier—the chain to him is sound. It is likewise transmitted through Mālik ibn Abī Maryam and through Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd, who also enjoys a sound reputation. All three transmitters mention musical instruments among the unequivocally forbidden matters. Therefore, anyone who still insists on declaring the hadith weak is a stubborn, arrogant person against whom applies the Prophet’s ﷺ saying: “No one who harbors even a mustard-seed’s weight of pride in his heart shall enter Paradise,” and in the same report, “Pride means rejecting the truth and looking down on people.” Muslim and others related this hadith, and it is cited in Ghāyat al-Marām 98 / 114.

The second hadith: On the authority of Anas ibn Mālik ﵁, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared:

“Two sounds are cursed in this world and the Hereafter: the flute at a time of rejoicing and the wail at a time of calamity.”

Al-Bazzār recorded it in his Musnad 1 / 377 / 795, and in Kashf al-Astār he states: “ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us; Shabīb ibn Bishr al-Bajalī said, ‘I heard Anas ibn Mālik say …,’” then he quoted the hadith. Through the same route from Abū ʿĀṣim—whose name is al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Makhlad—the hadith was also narrated by Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī in al-Rubāʿiyyāt 2 / 22 / 1 (Ẓāhiriyyah manuscript) and by al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah 6 / 188 / 2200, 2201.

Al-Bazzār commented: “We do not know it from Anas except through this chain.”