Yahya.
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Shah Alamgir Aurangzeb of the Indian Mughal Sultanate, who ruled the subcontinent for some 49 years had prohibited music and expelled all musicians from the country. The great fiqh book "Fatawa Al-Hindiyya" that was compiled under his order by a council of scholars has a chapter on music where it explicitly states it being haram. For instance they cite the fatwa of Shamsu'l A'imma Al-Halwani, the teacher of famous hanafi scholar Al-Sarakhsi.