These authentic hadiths show that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked about drinks made from things other than grapes, such as mizr, and answered with a comprehensive statement and a general rule:
“Every intoxicant is forbidden.”
This makes clear that he meant that every drink of an intoxicating kind is forbidden, whether or not a person becomes intoxicated from drinking it, just as with grape wine. Had he meant by “intoxicant” only the final cup, the drink as a whole would not have been forbidden. He would have explained this to them, saying, “Drink it, but do not become intoxicated.” Moreover:
“He asked them about mizr, ‘Does it intoxicate?’ They replied, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Every intoxicant is forbidden.’”
When he asked them, “Does it intoxicate?”, he meant whether a large quantity of it causes intoxication. This is like saying, “Bread satisfies hunger” and “Water quenches thirst,” although satisfaction and the quenching of thirst are achieved by consuming a substantial quantity, not a small amount. Likewise, intoxication results from consuming a large quantity of an intoxicant. When they told him that it intoxicates, he said:
“Every intoxicant is forbidden.”
He thus made clear that he used “intoxicating” in the same way that “satisfying” and “thirst-quenching” and similar descriptions are used; he did not mean the final cup.
In Sahīh Muslim, ‘Abd Allāh ibn ‘Umar reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“Every intoxicant is khamr (wine), and all khamr is forbidden.”
Another wording reads:
“Every intoxicant is forbidden.”
Those who interpret this as referring to the final cup do not call it khamr, whereas the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, declared every intoxicant forbidden.
In the Sunan collections, al-Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:
“Khamr is made from wheat, khamr is made from barley, khamr is made from raisins, and khamr is made from honey.”
It is also reported in the Sahīh collection that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb said from the pulpit of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace: