He was asked:

Concerning people who dance to singing accompanied by a frame drum, after which some prostrate to others as a gesture of humility: is this a practice of the Sunnah, or was it practised by the righteous shaykhs?

The answer:

It is not permissible to prostrate to anyone other than Allah. Treating drumming, singing, and dancing as worship is among the religious innovations that were practised neither by the early generations of this Ummah nor by its leading shaykhs, such as al-Fudayl ibn ʿIyād, Ibrāhīm ibn Adham, Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, al-Sarī al-Saqatī, and others.

Likewise, the leading shaykhs of later times—such as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir, Shaykh ʿAdī, Shaykh Abū Madyan, Shaykh Abū al-Bayān, and others—did not attend “innovated listening sessions.” Rather, they attended “religiously prescribed listening sessions”: the kind of listening practised by the prophets and their followers, such as listening to the Quran. And Allah knows best.