1086 – Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them) said: “Raisins would be steeped for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in a waterskin. He would drink it on the day it was prepared, the next day, and the day after that. When the evening of the third day arrived, he would drink from it and serve it to others; if anything remained, he would pour it away.” Reported by Muslim.⦗1⦘

Vocabulary
• yanbadh: to steep dates, grapes, or similar fruits in water, producing nabīdh—water into which dates, raisins, and the like are thrown so that the water becomes sweet and loses its brackishness. It remains permissible so long as it has not fermented or more than three days have not passed.
• zabīb: raisins, the dried form of grapes; singular: zabībah.
• siqāʾ (with a kasra on the sīn, followed by a qāf and an extended alif): a leather container used for water or milk.

Points derived from the ḥadiths

1. These five narrations show that when the Qur’an prohibited wine, wine was being produced from grapes, dates, honey, wheat, and barley, and that khamr in the Arabic tongue in which the Qur’an was revealed refers to anything that clouds and veils the mind.
   The prohibition is stated in two verses of Sūrat al-Māʾidah, in which Allah, the Exalted, says: “…an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So avoid it that you may succeed” (5:90).
   Within this single verse there are seven proofs for the prohibition of wine; the first is His words, “an abomination (rijs)….”