Whistling in the toilet

25-8-2015 | IslamWeb

Question:

Is whistling prohibited? Are whistling at night and talking in the toilet Satanic acts? Would you please provide evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah. Thank you.
Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, the Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

Both whistling and unnecessary talking while one is relieving himself in the toilet is disliked. When the two matters are done together, this is even more disliked. The Hanbali scholar Ibn Muflih may Allaah have mercy upon him quoted Shaykh ‘Abdul-Qadir may Allaah have mercy upon him as saying: "Whistling and handclapping are disliked." Allaah Almighty dispraised the polytheists, saying (what means): {And their prayer at the House was not except whistling and handclapping.} [Quran 8: 35] The verse is interpreted as such by Abu Bakr ibn Al-‘Arabi may Allaah have mercy upon him and it was related from Ibn ‘Abbaas, Ibn ‘Umar, Al-Hasan, Mujaahid, ‘Atiyyah, Qatadah, As-Suddi and others may Allaah have mercy upon them.

An-Nawawi may Allaah have mercy upon him said: "The scholars unanimously agree that talking while one is relieving oneself is disliked…All types of talking in such a situation are disliked unless there is a necessity."

Abu Sa‘eed Al-Khudri may Allaah have mercy upon him narrated that the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, said: "When two persons go together for the purpose of relieving themselves uncovering their private parts and talking together, Allaah, the Exalted, gets wrathful at this (action)." [Abu Daawood and Ahmad; An-Nawawi: good]

Allaah Knows best.

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