⦗279⦘ Second: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab said, “I loathe singing, yet I like rajaz-style poetry.” ʿAbd al-Razzāq records it in his Muṣannaf 11/6/19743 with an authentic chain.

Third: Al-Shaʿbī, ʿĀmir ibn Shurayḥīl. Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid relates that he disapproved of a female singer’s wage and said, “I would not like to eat it.” Ibn Abī Shaybah records this in 7/9/2203 with a sound chain. His statement, “Singing causes hypocrisy to sprout in the heart…,” will appear later, Chapter Eight, p. 148.

Fourth: Mālik ibn Anas—we have already cited with a rigorously authentic chain that he said about singing, “Only the shameless among us engage in it.” Yet al-Shawkānī quotes al-Qaffāl as claiming that Mālik’s school allows singing accompanied by instruments!

Now, among the opinions listed by al-Shawkānī there are some whose chains may indeed be sound, but their actual wording leaves room to doubt that they support permissibility. I have traced the isnād of two such reports:

The first is what he ascribed to Ibn Ḥazm in his treatise on audition, where—through his chain—he narrates from Ibn Sīrīn, who said: