Two-thirds of its two impurities disappear: one third with its smell and one third with its boiling foam. Order those who are with you to drink it. According to the route of Saʿid b. al-Musayyib, ʿUmar declared permissible any beverage that had been cooked until two-thirds had evaporated and one third remained. Al-Nasaʾi (8/329) reports, through the chain of ʿAbd Allah b. Yazid al-Khatmi, that ʿUmar wrote: “Boil your drink until the devil’s share is gone from it, for the devil has two shares and you have one.” Ibn Ḥajar said in Fatḥ al-Bari 10/55, after citing these traditions: “Their chains are sound, and some of them make it explicit that the only objectionable element is *sukr* (intoxication); therefore, whenever it intoxicates, it is unlawful.” (1) ʿUtbah b. Farqad was a Companion; see Asad al-ghaba 3/567-568, al-Isaba 6/379-380, and al-Istiʿab 8/14. We have not located the hadith to which Yahya b. Saʿid refers. In the six canonical collections he transmits only one report, found in al-Nasaʾi 4/129-130 on fasting. Al-Nasaʾi records it through Muhammad b. Mansur, who said: Sufyan b. ʿAtaʾ b. al-Saʾib related to us from ʿArfaja: “We visited ʿUtbah b. Farqad and began discussing the month of Ramadan. He asked, ‘What are you talking about?’ We replied, ‘The month of Ramadan.’ He said: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: In it the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed, the devils are chained, and a herald calls every night: O seeker of good, advance! O seeker of evil, desist!’” Abu ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Nasaʾi commented: “This wording is incorrect. Muhammad b. Bashar informed us that Muhammad related to us: Shuʿbah transmitted from ʿAtaʾ b. al-Saʾib, from ʿArfaja, who said: I was in a house that contained ʿUtbah b. Farqad. I wished to narrate a hadith, but there was a man from the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ who had more right to do so. The man then narrated from the Prophet ﷺ: ‘In Ramadan the gates of heaven are opened, the gates of Hell are shut, every obstinate devil is shackled, and a caller proclaims each night: O seeker of good, come forward; O seeker of evil, hold back.’” If this is the report meant, its chain is sound, because both Sufyan and Shuʿbah heard from ʿAtaʾ b. al-Saʾib before his memory deteriorated. (2) He is al-Khuzaʿi, one of the eminent imams; although there is some weakness in his narrations, Ahmad and others deemed him reliable. See his biography in the author’s Mizān 4/267 and in Tarikh Baghdad 13/306.