Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 5755
أَخْبَرَنِي أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سَعِيدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا الْقَوَارِيرِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُعْتَمِرُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ عَبِيدَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ، قَالَ أَحْدَثَ النَّاسُ أَشْرِبَةً مَا أَدْرِي مَا هِيَ فَمَا لِي شَرَابٌ مُنْذُ عِشْرِينَ سَنَةً أَوْ قَالَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً إِلاَّ الْمَاءُ وَالسَّوِيقُ غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَذْكُرِ النَّبِيذَ .
Ahmad ibn ʿAli ibn Saʿid ibn Ibrahim informed me: al-Qawariri narrated to us: Muʿtamir ibn Sulayman narrated to us, from his father, from Muhammad, from ʿAbidah, from Ibn Masʿud, who said: ‘People have introduced drinks; I do not know what they are. For twenty years—or he said, forty years—I have had no drink except water and sawiq.’ The source adds: ‘He did not mention nabidh.’
Translation notes
Sawiq is a drink made from roasted grain or flour. The source gives an uncertainty between twenty and forty years.