The man asked, “Could I not give it to the Jews in hopes of a return gift?”
The Prophet replied, “The One who forbade it also forbade giving it to the Jews in hopes of a return gift.”
The man asked, “What, then, should I do with it?”
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, “Pour it out onto the gravel plain.” Al-Humaydī narrated it in his Musnad.) p. 73
Weak. Al-Humaydī recorded it in al-Musnad (2/447/1034): Sufyān narrated to us, saying: Sālim Abū al-Nazar(1) narrated to us, from a man, from Abū Hurayra, that a man used to present the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with a wineskin of wine every year. One year, after wine had been forbidden, he presented it to him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “It has now been forbidden.” The man then said . . . and he related the rest of the hadith.
I say: This chain of transmission is weak—manifestly so—because the man who was not named is unknown.
I regard the opening of the hadith as rejected, because it indicates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had customarily accepted wine as a gift before it was forbidden. This would appear inconsistent with the divinely protected status of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Nevertheless, I have found a corroborating report for the hadith. It was recorded by Ahmad (4/227) and al-Tabarānī in al-Mujam al-Kabīr (1/64/1)—whose wording this is—through Shahr ibn Hawshab, from Abd al-Rahmān ibn Ghanm, from Tamīm al-Dārī:
“He used to present the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with a wineskin of wine every year. When the year came in which wine was forbidden, he presented him with a wineskin. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) laughed and said, ‘It has been forbidden.’ He asked, ‘May I sell it?’ He replied, ‘Both purchasing it and its price are forbidden.’”