[42] Additional Ahadith...

[42] Additional Ahadith, from Bihar Al-Anwaar related to Music are quoted in the Appendix: Appendix: Additional Ahadith on Music from Bihar Al-Anwaar تفسير القمي عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حُمَيْدٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ إِنِّي أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ شَيْ‏ءٍ أَسْتَحِي مِنْهُ Tafseer Al Qummi – from his father, from Ibn Abu Najran, from Aasim Bin Humeyd who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah -asws , ‘May I be sacrificed for you -asws !

I want to ask you -asws about something I am embarrassed from’. قَالَ سَلْ He -asws said: ‘Ask!’ قُلْتُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ غِنَاءٌ I said, ‘Is there singing in the Paradise?’ قَالَ إِنَّ فِي الْجَنَّةِ شَجَراً يَأْمُرُ اللَّهُ رِيَاحَهَا فَتَهُبُّ فَتَضْرِبُ تِلْكَ الشَّجَرَةُ بِأَصْوَاتٍ لَمْ يَسْمَعِ الْخَلَائِقُ بِمِثْلِهَا حُسْناً He -asws said: ‘In there, Paradise there is a tree.

Allah -azwj will Command its winds, so it will blow and strike that tree with such sounds the creatures would not have heard the likes of this excellence’. ثُمَّ قَالَ هَذَا عِوَضٌ لِمَنْ تَرَكَ السَّمَاعَ فِي الدُّنْيَا مِنْ مَخَافَةِ اللَّهِ الْخَبَرَ Then he -asws said: ‘This is in compensation for the one who neglects listening in the world from fear of Allah -azwj ’ – the Hadeeth’’.

[43] وَ الْمَلَاهِي الَّتِي تَصُدُّ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَبَارَكَ وَ تَعَالَى مَكْرُوهَةٌ كَالْغِنَاءِ وَ ضَرْبِ الْأَوْتَارِ وَ الْإِصْرَارِ عَلَى صَغَائِرِ الذُّنُوبِ And the amusements which hinder from Zikr of Allah -azwj Blessed and Exalted, abhorrence(s) like the singing, and striking the strings (of guitar etc.), and the persistence upon the minor sins’.

[44] الخصال عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ يَزِيدَ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مِهْرَانَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ هَارُونَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَقُولُ‏ الْغِنَاءُ يُورِثُ النِّفَاقَ وَ يَعْتَقِبُ الْفَقْرَ (The book) ‘Al Khisaal’ – from his father, from Sa’ad, from Ibn Yazeed, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Mihran Bin Muhammad, from Al-Hassan Bin Haroub who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah -asws saying: ‘The singing inherits the hypocrisy and the poverty is the consequence’’.