Drinks

ʿUthmān narrated to me: Jarīr narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, who said: I asked al-Aswad, “Did you ask ʿĀʾishah, Mother of the Believers, about the vessels in which it is disliked to prepare nabīdh?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Mother of the Believers, which vessels did the Prophet ﷺ forbid using for nabīdh?” She said: “He forbade us, the members of this household, to prepare it in the gourd and the pitch-coated vessel.” I said, “Did you not mention the earthenware jar and the green jar?” She said: “I am only telling you what I heard. Should I tell you what I did not hear?”

Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us: al-Shaybānī narrated to us, saying: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā (may God be pleased with them both) say: “The Prophet ﷺ forbade the green jar.” I said, “May we drink from the white one?” He said, “No.”

Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr narrated to us: Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qārī narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, who said: I heard Sahl ibn Saʿd say: “Abū Usayd al-Sāʿidī invited the Prophet ﷺ to his wedding feast. His wife served them that day while she was the bride.” She said: “You do not know what I steeped for the Messenger of God ﷺ: I soaked some dates for him in a bowl overnight.”

Muḥammad ibn Kathīr narrated to us: Sufyān informed us, from Abū al-Juwayriyyah, who said: “I asked Ibn ʿAbbās about al-bādhiq. He said: ‘Muḥammad ﷺ came before al-bādhiq; whatever intoxicates is forbidden.’” He said: “The drink that is lawful and good…” He said: “After what is lawful and good, there is only what is forbidden and foul.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Abū Usāmah narrated to us: Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah (may God be pleased with her), who said: “The Prophet ﷺ liked sweets and honey.”

Muslim narrated to us: Hishām narrated to us: Qatādah narrated to us, from Anas (may God be pleased with him), who said: “I was serving Abū Ṭalḥah, Abū Dujānah, and Suhayl ibn al-Bayḍāʾ a mixture of unripe and ripe dates when wine was forbidden. I threw it away while I was serving them and was the youngest among them. At that time, we considered it wine.” ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith said: Qatādah narrated to us that he heard Anas.

Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: ʿAṭāʾ informed me that he heard Jābir (may God be pleased with him) say: “The Prophet ﷺ forbade raisins, dates, unripe dates, and fresh ripe dates.”

Muslim narrated to us: Hishām narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr informed us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Qatādah, from his father, who said: “The Prophet ﷺ forbade combining dates with fresh dates, and dates with raisins. Prepare the nabīdh from each separately.”

ʿAbdān informed us: ʿAbd Allāh informed us: Yūnus informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah (may God be pleased with him), who said: “On the night the Messenger of God ﷺ was taken on the Night Journey, a cup of milk and a cup of wine were brought to him.”

Al-Ḥumaydī narrated to us. He heard Sufyān say: Sālim Abū al-Naḍr informed us that he heard ʿUmayr, the client of Umm al-Faḍl, relate from Umm al-Faḍl. She said: “People were uncertain whether the Messenger of God ﷺ was fasting on the day of ʿArafah, so I sent him a vessel containing milk, and he drank it.” Sufyān would sometimes say: “People were uncertain whether the Messenger of God ﷺ was fasting on the day of ʿArafah, so Umm al-Faḍl sent it to him.” When pressed about the attribution, he would say: “It is from Umm al-Faḍl.”

Qutaybah narrated to us: Jarīr narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ and Abū Sufyān, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: “Abū Ḥumayd brought a cup of milk from al-Naqīʿ. The Messenger of God ﷺ said to him: ‘Would you not cover it, even by laying a stick across it?’”

ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ narrated to us: My father narrated to us: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, saying: I heard Abū Ṣāliḥ mention—I think he reported it—from Jābir (may God be pleased with him), who said: “Abū Ḥumayd, a man from the Anṣār, came from al-Naqīʿ to the Prophet ﷺ with a vessel of milk. The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Would you not cover it, even by laying a stick across it?’” Abū Sufyān narrated to me the same report from Jābir, from the Prophet ﷺ.

Maḥmūd narrated to me: al-Naḍr informed us: Shuʿbah informed us, from Abū Isḥāq, who said: I heard al-Barāʾ (may God be pleased with him) say: “The Prophet ﷺ came from Mecca with Abū Bakr. Abū Bakr said: ‘We passed by a shepherd while the Messenger of God ﷺ was thirsty.’ Abū Bakr (may God be pleased with him) said: ‘I milked a little milk into a cup, and he drank until I was satisfied. Then Surāqah ibn Juʿshum came to us on horseback, and the Prophet ﷺ supplicated against him. Surāqah asked him not to supplicate against him and to let him return, so the Prophet ﷺ did.’”

Abū al-Yamān informed us: Shuʿayb informed us: Abū al-Zinād narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayrah (may God be pleased with him), that the Messenger of God ﷺ said: “How excellent a charitable gift is a choice milch camel given on loan, or a choice milch sheep given on loan: it yields one vessel [of milk] in the morning and another in the evening.”

Abu ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from al-Awzāʿī, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh, from Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them both), that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ drank milk, rinsed his mouth, and said, “It contains fat.”

Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān said, from Shuʿbah, from Qatādah, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I was raised to the Lote Tree, and there were four rivers: two visible rivers and two hidden rivers. As for the two visible ones, they are the Nile and the Euphrates; as for the two hidden ones, they are two rivers in Paradise. Then three vessels were brought to me: one containing milk, one containing honey, and one containing wine. I took the one containing milk and drank it. It was said to me, ‘You have chosen the natural disposition, you and your community.’”

Hishām, Saʿīd, and Hammām said, from Qatādah, from Anas ibn Mālik, from Mālik ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah, from the Prophet ﷺ, a similar report concerning the rivers; they did not mention the three vessels.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Maslamah narrated to us, from Mālik, from Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that he heard Anas ibn Mālik say: “Abū Ṭalḥah had more date palms and wealth than any other Anṣārī in Medina. The property he loved most was Bayruḥāʾ, which faced the mosque. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would enter it and drink good water there. Anas said: When the verse ‘You will never attain righteousness until you spend from what you love’ was revealed, Abū Ṭalḥah stood and said, ‘Messenger of Allah, Allah says, “You will never attain righteousness until you spend from what you love.” The property I love most is Bayruḥāʾ, and I give it as charity for Allah, hoping for its righteousness and reward stored up with Allah. So place it, Messenger of Allah, wherever Allah directs you.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Well done! That is profitable— or yielding—property; ʿAbd Allāh was unsure which he heard. I have heard what you said, and I think you should give it to your closest relatives.’ Abū Ṭalḥah said, ‘I will do so, Messenger of Allah,’ and distributed it among his relatives and his cousins.”

Ismāʿīl and Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā said: “Yielding.”

ʿAbdān narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh informed us: Yūnus informed us, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Anas ibn Mālik (may Allah be pleased with him) informed me that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ drink milk. He came to Anas’s home, and Anas milked a sheep and mixed the milk for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with water from the well. He took the cup and drank. Abū Bakr was on his left and a Bedouin on his right, so he gave the remainder to the Bedouin. Then he said, “The one on the right, then the one on the right.”

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us: Fulayḥ ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn al-Ḥārith, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh (may Allah be pleased with them both): The Prophet ﷺ visited a man from the Anṣār, accompanied by one of his companions. The Prophet ﷺ said to him, “If you have water that has remained overnight in a waterskin, bring it; otherwise, we will drink directly from the water.” The man was moving water around in his garden. He said, “Messenger of Allah, I have water that has remained overnight. Come to the shelter.” He took them there, poured water into a cup, and then milked some milk from a domesticated animal into it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ drank, and then the man who had accompanied him drank.

ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us: Abū Usāmah narrated to us; he said: Hishām informed me, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: “The Prophet ﷺ liked sweets and honey.”