Does Sahih al-Bukhari 5590 contradict Bukhari 3931?

Question

Narrated Abu 'Amir or Abu Malik Al-Ash'ari:

that he heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "From among my followers there will be some people who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, as lawful. And there will be some people who will stay near the side of a mountain and in the evening their shepherd will come to them with their sheep and ask them for something, but they will say to him, 'Return to us tomorrow.' Allah will destroy them during the night and will let the mountain fall on them, and He will transform the rest of them into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Resurrection.

This hadith controdicts this one :

That once Abu Bakr came to her on the day of Id-ul-Fitr or Id ul Adha while the Prophet (ﷺ) was with her and there were two girl singers with her, singing songs of the Ansar about the day of Buath. Abu Bakr said twice. "Musical instrument of Satan!" But the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Leave them Abu Bakr, for every nation has an Id (i.e. festival) and this day is our Id."

Source

In one hadith prophet Muhammad(PBUH) is saying, "Leave them Abu Bakr, for every nation has an Id (i.e. festival) and this day is our Id.", means that he had no problem with music. But in the first hadith he is saying that music is illegal.

Answer 1

We can sum up without conflict; musical instruments and music is unlawful with minor exception for Daff and that also only for few situations as pointed in Hadees.

Answer 2

The point is here is that, those things being unlawful still people think it's lawful. It stressing on the fact that people would become so misinformed and would start considering things as lawful whereas they are strictly prohibited as per hadith and quran.

Wearing silk would invite fire of hell Alcoholic drinks are never lawful in Islam and praying while intoxicated is totally bad and would give direct entry into hell

Sexual intercourse be it adultery or fornication would invite getting 100 lashes on both and their faces would be blackened on the day of judgement and Allah would never look at them also nor will purify them. Musical instruments are discouraged in Islam since the era of Nuh PBUH as these are all things which hinder you from remembrance of Allah and doing these things would help you to be misguided in this world and the hereafter.

Considering the second hadith it may be a Hamd or praise lines in the name of Allah or they may be of totally other religions too may be as there is little information but Quran exceptionally has provided to not pursue these things.

Answer 3

based on people study bukhari, hadith 5590 is muallaq or hanging hadith. bukhari purposely made it 'hanging' due to several reasons. below is possible reason.

1. Because it is repeated (it has been quoted elsewhere with its full chain)

2. Because he has already quoted another hadith with full isnad that conveyed the same meaning and then added this quote without a chain for the sake of brevity

3. For clarifying something in the chain about a particular narrator’s taking from another (a technical matter that is not related to the subject at hand. See footnote seven.)

4. If it is a statement of a Companion, because the statements of the Companions are not the main purpose of this book, and therefore Imam Bukhari did not feel the need to always provide the chains leading up to their statements

5. Someone in the chain did not possess the required standard of exactitude in his narrations, or may be a trustworthy narrator but not according to the high standard that Imam Bukhari set for his Sahih book in particular.[5]

reference: https://basira.academy/2020/06/03/why-did-imam-bukhari-leave-the-hadith-of-instruments-hanging/