Ruling on Playing Table Tennis- Shaikh Ibn ul-Uthaymeen

Question: In regards to Tennis, you said it is haram*. It is similar to volleyball?

Answer: “If there is benefit in it, then it is like soccer?”

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

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*Translator’s Note:

The questioner is referring to what Shaikh Ibn ul-Uthaymeen said earlier in the same tape:

” as for other games, our scholars see them to be haram, like cards and tennis”