ʿĀṣim, from ʿUbayd ibn Abī ʿUbayd, from Abū Hurayrah—who said, while I was passing with him through a certain tract of land—that he said:
“I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, ‘Many an oath sworn in this spot never rises up to Allah (1).’”
Abū Hurayrah added, “I later saw slave-traders operating there.”
With this same chain to Ibn al-Mubārak: Ibn ʿAjlān informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “Every intoxicant is unlawful, and every intoxicant is wine (2).”
Isḥāq ibn Ṭāriq al-Asadī informed us; Ibn Khalīl informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad al-Kāghadī informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Muqriʾ informed us; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; I heard Ibn Abī Rizmah say, “I heard ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq say, ‘I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak declare:
“We can recount the words of the Jews and the Christians, yet we are unable to recount the words of the Jahmites.” (3)’”
And, with this chain to Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Sarrāj, I heard Abū Yaḥyā say:
(1) Its chain of transmission is weak: Asim ibn Ubayd Allah al-Umari is unreliable, and his teacher Ubayd ibn Abi Ubayd is declared trustworthy only by Ibn Hibban and al-Ajli. The report also appears in Ahmad, al-Musnad, 2/303, through the route of Abd al-Rahman → Sufyan → Asim → Ubayd → Abu Hurayra.
(2) Its chain is sound (hasan). Muslim narrates it as well (no. 2003) through Hammad ibn Zayd → Ayyub → Nafi → Ibn Umar, with the wording: “Every intoxicant is wine, and every intoxicant is forbidden. Whoever drinks wine in this world and dies persisting in it, without repenting, shall not drink it in the Hereafter.” The hadith is also recorded by Ahmad 2/98; al-Tirmidhi (1861); Abu Dawud (3679); and al-Nasai 9/558.
(3) The Jahmiyya are the followers of Jahm ibn Safwan al-Rasibi, known as Abu Muhriz. Raised in Samarqand (Khurasan), he later lived for a time in Tirmidh and was a mawla of the Banu Rasib of the Azd tribe. The early scholars unanimously condemned him for his extreme transcendentalism (tanzih), denying the divine attributes and re-interpreting them to the point of nullification. He was killed in 128 AH alongside al-Harith ibn Surayj during the latter’s revolt against the Umayyads.