Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3406
حَدَّثَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الأَعْلَى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا ابْنُ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ بْنِ هَانِئٍ، عَنْ مَسْرُوقِ بْنِ الأَجْدَعِ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " إِنِّي كُنْتُ نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ نَبِيذِ الأَوْعِيَةِ أَلاَ وَإِنَّ وِعَاءً لاَ يُحَرِّمُ شَيْئًا كُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ حَرَامٌ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn Masʿūd reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘I had forbidden you to prepare nabīdh in certain vessels. But no vessel makes anything forbidden: every intoxicant is forbidden.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The wording contrasts the vessel with its contents: the vessel itself does not render anything forbidden; the decisive prohibition is on every intoxicant.
The phrase ‘nabīdh of the vessels’ refers to preparing the drink in vessels, but no vessel is named here.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ " إِنِّي كُنْتُ نَهَيْتُكُمْ عَنْ نَبِيذِ الأَوْعِيَةِ أَلاَ وَإِنَّ وِعَاءً لاَ يُحَرِّمُ شَيْئًا كُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ حَرَامٌ " .
The phrase ‘a vessel does not make anything forbidden’ is concise; its contrast with the following clause suggests that prohibition concerns intoxicating contents rather than the container.
Does the statement mean that no container itself makes its contents forbidden, while intoxicants remain forbidden?