and singling out particular cases in this way is like his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: “Three things in my ummah belong to the practices of the pre-Islamic age.” Even those who hold that such wording carries a contrary implication do so only when there is no other reason for specifying those cases. Here, these sounds were singled out because they were customary in his time. This resembles the statement of Allah Most High:

“Do not kill your children for fear of poverty.”
[Surah al-Isrāʾ 31]

The second answer is that the wording used by the Messenger encompasses the very matter under dispute, since it concerns the sound made at a time of blessing. Even where no blessing is involved, his wording would indicate the prohibition by implication. For if he forbade it at a time of blessing, when a person has some excuse—as in the concession allowing women to sing at weddings, on feast days, and similar occasions—then prohibiting it in the absence of that, without such an occasion, is all the more fitting and warranted.

As for musical instruments, an authentic report concerning them is related by al-Bukhārī in his Sahīh, with the beginning of its chain omitted, but with a definitive attribution and in accordance with his criteria. It is related from ʿAbd al-Rahmān ibn Ghanm al-Ashʿarī that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say: “There will certainly be people in my ummah who deem illicit sexual intercourse, silk, wine, and musical instruments lawful. Some people will settle beside a mountain, and someone will come in the evening with grazing livestock