Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5563
أَخْبَرَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، قَالَ أَنْبَأَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، عَنْ وِقَاءِ بْنِ إِيَاسٍ، عَنِ الْمُخْتَارِ بْنِ فُلْفُلٍ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنْ نَجْمَعَ شَيْئَيْنِ نَبِيذًا يَبْغِي أَحَدُهُمَا عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ . قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الْفَضِيخِ فَنَهَانِي عَنْهُ قَالَ كَانَ يَكْرَهُ الْمُذَنَّبَ مِنَ الْبُسْرِ مَخَافَةَ أَنْ يَكُونَا شَيْئَيْنِ فَكُنَّا نَقْطَعُهُ .
Suwayd ibn Nasr reported to us; he said: ʿAbdullah informed us, from Wiqaʾ ibn Iyas, from al-Mukhtar ibn Fulful, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade us to steep two ingredients together when one might overpower the other. I asked him about fadikh, and he forbade it. He disliked the mudhannab part of unripe dates, for fear that it might make them count as two ingredients, so we used to cut it off.
Translation notes
Fadikh is a date-based steeped drink. The precise referent of al-mudhannab (literally, ‘the tailed portion’) is uncertain in this context, so the Arabic term is retained.