16
Ahmad informed us,
16 – Abu Bakr narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn ʿIsa narrated to us; he said: I heard Ibn al-Mubarak asked about the habitual drinker. He answered, “He is the one who drinks it today and then does not drink it again until thirty years have passed—yet, in his view, were he to find it, he would drink it.”
أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ،
١٦ - حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عِيسَى، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ ابْنَ الْمُبَارَكِ، سُئِلَ عَنِ الْمُدْمِنِ، فَقَالَ: الَّذِي يَشْرَبُهَا الْيَوْمَ ثُمَّ لَا يَشْرَبُهَا إِلَى ثَلَاثِينَ سَنَةً وَمِنْ رَأْيِهِ أَنَّهُ إِذَا وَجَدَهُ أَنْ يَشْرَبَهُ