—rather, he leans—indeed, he builds his case—out of glaring ignorance, or in order to bolster his own desire, upon Ibn Ḥazm’s remark, “This is nothing,” up to his words, “and its chain is nothing.” The fallacy of that reliance has already been exposed in the Introduction, pp. 29–30, so we shall not repeat the discussion.
Ibn Taymiyyah states in his valuable work al-Istiqāmah 1/292–293:
“This ḥadīth is among the finest proofs for the prohibition of singing. It is like the well-known report from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh: ‘A voice raised at a blessing amounts to frivolity, play, and the pipes of Satan.’ Thus he forbade the voice that is raised at a time of blessing just as he forbade the voice raised at a time of calamity; and the voice raised at a blessing is the voice of song.”
The third ḥadīth: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās — may Allah be pleased with them both — reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
“Indeed Allah has forbidden me—or He has forbidden—wine, gambling, the kubah (drum), and every intoxicant is unlawful.”
Qays ibn Ḥubtar al-Nahshalī transmits it from Ibn ʿAbbās through two routes:
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The first route: ʿAlī ibn Badhīmah narrates, “Qays ibn Ḥubtar al-Nahshalī related it to me from him.”
It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (3696); al-Bayhaqī, 10/221; Aḥmad in the Musnad 1/274 and in Kitāb al-Ashribah, no. 193; Abū Yaʿlā in his Musnad 2729; Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ 5341 (through Abū Yaʿlā); Abū ʾl-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī in al-Arbaʿīn, fol. 13/1 (Ẓāhiriyyah copy); and al-Ṭabarānī.