and wine may be made from barley, wine from raisins, wine from dates, and wine from honey; and I (1) forbid every intoxicant.” It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd and others (2).
However, in the two Sahīh collections (3), this is reported as a statement of Umar himself: he proclaimed it in a sermon from the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—saying, “Wine is whatever clouds the mind” (4).
Ibn Umar—may Allah be pleased with them both—reported that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: “Every intoxicant is wine, and every intoxicant is forbidden.” Another version states: “Every intoxicant is wine, and all wine is forbidden.” Muslim narrated both versions in his Sahīh (5).
Aisha—may Allah be pleased with her—reported that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: “Every intoxicant is forbidden. Whatever intoxicates when a faraq measure of it is consumed, even a handful of it is forbidden” (6). Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a good hadith.”
(1) (Zh) reads: “Rather.”
(2) Narrated by Ahmad (18350), Abū Dāwūd (3677), al-Tirmidhī (1872), al-Nasā’ī in *al-Kubrā* (6756), Ibn Mājah (3379), Ibn Hibbān in *al-Ihsān* (5398), and al-Hākim (4/148), through several chains from Āmir al-Shabī, from al-Numān, with the same report. Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a *gharīb* hadith.” He then cited the hadith through Abū Hayyān, from al-Shabī, from Ibn Umar, from Umar, as a *mawqūf* report attributed to Umar—as the author will mention—and said: “This is more authentic than the hadith of Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir,” meaning his narration from al-Shabī, from al-Numān. Ibn Hibbān, al-Hākim, and Ibn al-Mulaqqin in *al-Badr* (8/706) graded al-Numān’s hadith authentic.
(3) Al-Bukhārī (4619) and Muslim (3032).
(4) The passage beginning with “However, this…” and ending here is absent from (F, Zh).
(5) (2003/74, 75). The phrase “in his *Sahīh*” appears in the original manuscript and (Z).
(6) Narrated by Ahmad (24423), Abū Dāwūd (3687), al-Tirmidhī (1866), Ibn Hibbān in *al-Ihsān* (5383), al-Dāraqutnī (4/250), and others. Al-Tirmidhī graded the hadith *hasan* (good), and Ibn Hibbān graded it *sahīh* (authentic). The following hadith corroborates it.