Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Theology and Ahl-al-Bayt ) Studies University of Isfahan , m.lotfi@ltr.ui.ac.ir
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Throughout history, music has been one of the major noteworthy subjects. From the pre-Islamic era to the sixth century, various religious and social discourses have formed around music, and each has interacted or confronted music in some way. The present article seeks to answer the question of how historical currents have led to the prevalence of narrations prohibiting music in hadiths. Given the various needs of humans in social and governmental dimensions for wholesome music, why wasn't a proper usage regulation of music implemented by the Imams (a.s.)? Which hadith context and historical discourse do the narrations prohibiting music and its instruments, such as "Angels do not enter a house...", relate to? The results of this research, gathered using a descriptive-analytical method and textual and documentary genealogy of narrations, show that Warram ibn Abi Firas's (605 AH) report of the mentioned narration is invalid due to the transmission in the chain of narrators. The conflict between the discourse of jurists and hadith scholars with movements such as futuwwa is an example of preventing the unhealthy use of music and the lack of proper regulation of music usage in Islamic history.