He said, “Then do not drink it, for my father related to me from ʿĀʾishah that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Every intoxicant is unlawful, from the first drop to the last.’”
Abu al-Faḍl is unknown to me, and the report is objectionable (1).
17 – Abu Zurʿah al-Astarābādhī Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm *
He was an imām, a ḥāfiẓ, a meticulous critic, and an itinerant scholar: Abu Zurʿah Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Bundār al-Astarābādhī, nicknamed “al-Yamanī” because he resided for a time in Yemen (2).
He heard ḥadith from Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Sarrāj, ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Maʿdān al-Fārisī, Abu ʿArūbah al-Ḥarrānī, Abu al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, Abu Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid, and others of their rank.
He undertook lengthy journeys, possessed notable expertise, and produced compilations and writings.
Transmitters who reported from him include: Abu Saʿd al-Idrīsī, Ḥamzah ibn Yūsuf al-Sahmī, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Yazdī, and others.
He lived on until a little past 370 AH, and I have only placed him slightly after his natural tier.
(1) I.e. the report contains additional words at its beginning and end. The wording “kullu muskir haram” (every intoxicant is forbidden) is sound: it is recorded by Malik, al-Muwatta 2/845, Book of Drinks, chapter “The Prohibition of Khamr”; by al-Bukhari 10/35, Book of Drinks, chapter “Khamr prepared from honey, i.e. al-bitʿ”; and by Muslim, no. 2001, Book of Drinks, chapter “Every intoxicant is khamr.” All three transmit it from Aisha with the wording: “Every drink that intoxicates is forbidden.” The same meaning is reported from Abu Musa al-Ashari in al-Bukhari 8/50 and Muslim 3/1586, specific hadith no. 70, with the wording: “Every intoxicant is forbidden,” and from Ibn Umar in Muslim no. 2003 with the wording: “Every intoxicant is khamr, and every intoxicant is forbidden.”
(*) Tarikh Jurjan, p. 495; Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/998–999; Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 396.
The nisba al-Istrabadhi is pointed in the base manuscript with an open taʾ, which matches Yaqut’s vocalisation in his Muʿjam. Al-Samʿani, however, reads both the hamza and the taʾ with kasra, a view followed by Ibn al-Athir in al-Lubab and al-Suyuti in Lubb al-Lubab. The name refers to Istrabadh, a large and famous town that has produced numerous scholars in every discipline; it belongs to the district of Tabaristan, situated between Sariyya and Jurjan.
(2) Tarikh Jurjan adds that he was also called al-Attari because he was the grandson of Muhammad ibn Bandar al-Attar.