the road and he said o nafi do you hear something? he said no. so he raised his fingers and said i was with the messenger of allah and he heard something like this so he did something like this. if it were forbidden the messenger of allah would not have permitted ibn umar to hear it nor would ibn umar have permitted nafi to hear it. however he peace be upon him hated for himself everything that was not a way of drawing closer to allah just as he hated eating while reclining drying oneself after washing in a garment prepared for that purpose and the embroidered curtain on the pillow of aisha and on the door of fatima may allah be pleased with them both and just as he peace be upon him hated most strongly that a dinar or a dirham be spent with him overnight. rather he peace be upon him was sent to denounce evil and command good. if that were forbidden he peace be upon him would not have limited himself to blocking his ears from it without ordering it to be abandoned and forbidding it. so he peace be upon him did not do any of that rather he approved of it and refrained from it. so it is clear that it is permissible and that abandoning it is better like all other permissible worldly superfluities and there is no difference.
الطريق، وقال يا نافع هل تسمع شيئا قال لا؛ فرفع إصبعيه وقال كنت مع رسول الله فسمع مثل هذا، فصنع مثل هذا. فلو كان حراما ما أباح رسول الله لابن عمر سماعه، ولا أباح ابن عمر لنافع سماعه، ولكنه عليه السلام، كره لنفسه كل شيء ليس من التقرب إلى الله، كما كره الأكل متكئا والتنشف بعد الغسل في ثوب يعد لذلك ، والستر الموشى على سدة عائشة وعلى باب فاطمة رضوان الله عليهما، وكما كره أشد الكراهية عليه السلام أن يبيت عنده دينار أو درهم. وإنما بعث عليه السلام منكرا للمنكر وآمرا بالمعروف، فلو كان ذلك حراما لما اقتصر عليه السلام أن يسد أذنيه عنه دون أن يأمر بتركه وبنهى عنه. فلم يفعل عليه السلام شيئا من ذلك، بل أقره وتنزه عنه، فصح انه مباح وأن تركه أفضل، كسائر فضول الدنيا المباحة، ولا فرق.