Explanation For Hadith About Entertainment
First it is necessary to maintain, that Hadith is not source to get general rules and principles from it. principles of Deen are taken from Quran and the perpetual, consensual Sunnah of the prophet. Ahadith are the applications of these rules but narrated mostly without their context which changes the whole scenario. Ahadith are words of the narrators who sometimes inadvertently misunderstood or mixed up. The prophet while telling an advice did not cover up all the aspects of the topic as we do in lectures. These are occasional sayings and addressed to deal with a particular issue at hand. So it is useless to extract all aspects from a single narration. The principle of entertainment is that It should not be unethical and should not interfere with some greater goal as we see in this hadith about preparation of war.