The Book of Drinks

Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Sunni reported to us, as the text was read to him in his home. He said: The Imam Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shuʿayb al-Nasaʾi—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—informed us; he said: Abu Dawud informed us; he said: ʿUbaydullah ibn Musa narrated to us; he said: Israʾil informed us, from Abu Ishaq, from Abu Maysarah, from ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: When the prohibition of wine was revealed, ʿUmar said, ‘O Allah, give us a clear ruling about wine.’ Then the verse in al-Baqarah was revealed. ʿUmar was summoned and it was recited to him, so he said, ‘O Allah, give us a clear ruling about wine.’ Then the verse in al-Nisaʾ was revealed: ‘O you who believe, do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated.’ Whenever the Messenger of Allah’s caller announced the prayer, he would call out, ‘Do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated.’ ʿUmar was summoned and it was recited to him, so he said, ‘O Allah, give us a clear ruling about wine.’ Then the verse in al-Maʾidah was revealed. ʿUmar was summoned and it was recited to him. When it reached the words, ‘Will you then desist?’ ʿUmar said, ‘We desist! We desist!’

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah—meaning Ibn al-Mubarak—informed us, from Sulayman al-Taymi, that Anas ibn Malik related to them: While I was standing among my people and paternal uncles, the youngest of them, a man came and said, ‘Wine has been forbidden.’ I was standing over them, serving them their fadikh, a drink made from dates. They said, ‘Pour it out,’ so I poured it out. I asked Anas, ‘What was it?’ He said, ‘Unripe dates and dried dates.’ Abu Bakr ibn Anas said, ‘That was their wine at the time,’ and Anas did not object.

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah—meaning Ibn al-Mubarak—informed us, from Saʿid ibn Abi ʿArubah, from Qatadah, from Anas, who said: I was serving wine to Abu Talhah, Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, and Abu Dujanah, along with a group of the Ansar, when a man came in and said, ‘News has arrived: the prohibition of wine has been revealed.’ So we poured it out. The only drink they had at the time was fadikh, a mixture of unripe and dried dates. Anas said: ‘Wine was forbidden, and most of their wine at that time was fadikh.’

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah informed us, from Humayd al-Tawil, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: When wine was forbidden, their drink was made from unripe and dried dates.

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah informed us, from Shuʿbah, from Muharib ibn Dithar, from Jabir—meaning Ibn ʿAbdullah—who said: ‘Unripe dates and dried dates are khamr.’

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah informed us, from Sufyan, from Muharib ibn Dithar, who said: I heard Jabir ibn ʿAbdullah say: ‘Unripe dates and dried dates are khamr.’ Al-Aʿmash traced this report back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Al-Qasim ibn Zakariyya reported to us; he said: ʿUbaydullah informed us, from Shayban, from al-Aʿmash, from Muharib ibn Dithar, from Jabir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: ‘Raisins and dates are khamr.’

Ishaq ibn Mansur reported to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Rahman informed us, from Shuʿbah, from al-Hakam, from Ibn Abi Layla, from an unnamed Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that the Prophet forbade mixing unripe dates with dried dates, and raisins with dates.

Wasil ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿla reported to us; he said: Ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from Habib ibn Abi ʿAmrah, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade the gourd vessel, the earthen jar, the pitch-coated vessel, and the hollowed palm-trunk vessel; he also forbade mixing unripe dates with dates just beginning to ripen.

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim reported to us; he said: Jarir informed us, from Habib ibn Abi ʿAmrah, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade the gourd vessel and the pitch-coated vessel—and on another occasion he also mentioned the hollowed palm-trunk vessel—and mixing dried dates with raisins, or dates just beginning to ripen with dried dates.

Al-Husayn ibn Mansur ibn Jaʿfar reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us; he said: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Habib, from Abu Artah, from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade mixing dates just beginning to ripen with dried dates, and raisins with dried dates.

Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah informed us, from al-Awzaʿi, who said: Yahya ibn Abi Kathir narrated to me; he said: ʿAbdullah ibn Abi Qatadah narrated to me, from his father, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: ‘Do not mix dried dates with raisins, nor dates just beginning to ripen with fresh ripe dates.’

Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna reported to us; he said: ʿUthman ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; he said: ʿAli—namely, Ibn al-Mubarak—narrated to us, from Yahya, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Qatadah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Do not steep dates just beginning to ripen together with fresh ripe dates, and do not steep raisins together with fresh ripe dates.’

Ahmad ibn Hafs ibn ʿAbdullah reported to us; he said: My father narrated to me; he said: Ibrahim—namely, Ibn Tahman—narrated to me, from ʿUmar ibn Saʿid, from Sulayman, from Malik ibn al-Harith, from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade mixing dried dates with raisins, dates just beginning to ripen with dried dates, and dates just beginning to ripen with unripe dates.

Yaʿqub ibn Ibrahim reported to us, from Yahya—namely, Ibn Saʿid—from Ibn Jurayj, who said: ʿAtaʾ informed me, from Jabir, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade combining dried dates with raisins, and unripe dates with fresh ripe dates.

ʿAmr ibn ʿAli reported to us, from Abu Dawud, who said: Bistam narrated to us; he said: Malik ibn Dinar narrated to us, from ʿAtaʾ, from Jabir, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: ‘Do not mix raisins with dried dates, nor unripe dates with dried dates.’

Qutaybah reported to us; he said: al-Layth narrated to us, from ʿAtaʾ, from Jabir, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that he forbade steeping raisins together with dried dates, and unripe dates together with dried dates.

Wasil ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿla reported to us, from Ibn Fudayl, from Abu Ishaq, from Habib ibn Abi Thabit, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade the gourd vessel, the earthen jar, the pitch-coated vessel, and the hollowed palm-trunk vessel; he also forbade mixing unripe dates with dried dates, and raisins with dried dates. He wrote to the people of Hajar: ‘Do not mix raisins and dried dates together.’

Ahmad ibn Sulayman reported to us; he said: Yazid narrated to us; he said: Humayd informed us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: ‘Unripe dates are forbidden by themselves, and they are forbidden when mixed with dried dates.’

Muhammad ibn Adam and ʿAli ibn Saʿid both reported to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Rahim narrated to us, from Habib ibn Abi ʿAmrah, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade mixing dried dates with raisins, and dried dates with unripe dates.