Selling instruments of amusement

Question

Question: Zayd wishes to open a shop in which he will stock and sell the kind of materials from which drums and wind instruments (tabl and mazamir) are made — for example, sheet brass from which musical instruments are made, and other such materials from which musical instruments are produced — and he wishes to open it in a location and place where many musical instruments are made and the market too is a market of musical instruments.

Answer

[ar]ويكره تحريمًا بيع السلاح من أهل الفتنة إن علم؛ لأنه إعانة على المعصية، وبيع ما يتخذ منه كالحديد ونحوه اهـ[/ar] “The sale of weapons to the people of sedition (ahl al-fitna), if this is known, is makruh tahrimi, because it is assistance in sin; and the sale of that from which they are made, such as iron and the like” (al-Durr al-Mukhtar).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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