A mulakāyah, a rāwiyah from the rabābīn cistern, and a jar of oil—no one is wealthier than I am. (1)
Ibn Idris regarded nabīdh—any fermented drink—as forbidden. He related: “I said to Hafs ibn Ghiyāth, ‘Stop sitting in the mosque.’
He replied, ‘Have you given it up while I have not?’
I said, ‘For a trial to overtake me while I am in flight from it is dearer to me than for it to strike me while I am courting it.’”
Abu Khaythamah said, “I heard Ibn Idris recite:
Every drink that intoxicates in large amounts—
its smallest measure is likewise unlawful;
I am to you a warner against its harm…
Abu Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah said, “I heard Ibn Idris say, ‘I copied the ḥadīth of Abū al-Ḥawrāʾ, and beneath it I wrote: ḥūr ʿīn.’ (2)
I remarked, ‘At that time they had not yet introduced vowel-pointing.’
Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah said, ‘ʿUbayd ibn Nuʿaym narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn al-Rabīʿ al-Burānī (3) narrated to us: “The Caliph’s letter was read aloud to Ibn Idris while I was …”’
(1) Ibn Maʿin, Tarikh, p. 296.
(2) He wrote the name in that form only to avoid confusion with the dotted letter jim, so that it would not be read as Abu al-Jawzaʾ. The hadith of Abu al-Hawraʾ is the report on the supplication recited in the qunut. It is related by Ahmad 1/199–200; Abu Dawud (1425); al-Tirmidhi (464); al-Nasaʾi 3/248; Ibn Majah (1178); al-Darimi 1/173; and al-Tayalisi (1199), through the chain of Burayd ibn Abi Maryam from Abu al-Hawraʾ, who said: al-Hasan ibn ʿAli stated, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ taught me words to say in the witr prayer: ‘Allahumma ihdini fiman hadayt, wa ʿafini fiman ʿafayt, wa tawallani fiman tawallayt, wa barik li fima aʿtayt, wa qini sharra ma qadayt, fa-innaka taqdi wa la yuqda ʿalayk, innahu la yadhillu man walayt; tabarakta Rabbana wa taʿalayt’ (O Allah, guide me among those You have guided, grant me well-being among those You have granted well-being, take me into Your care among those You have taken into Your care, bless me in what You have given, and protect me from the evil You have decreed, for You decree and none decrees against You; surely the one You befriend is never abased; You are Blessed and Exalted, our Lord).” Its chain is sound, and al-Hakim declared it authentic (3/172).
(3) The nisba refers to the craft of making woven mats (al-bawari) that are spread out and sat upon.