There is no harm in documenting them for their benefit, and because some of them contain a hidden defect that escaped certain scholars, who consequently declared them authentic. They are narrated from Anas ibn Malik, Abu Hurayrah, Abdullah ibn Abbas, al-Bara ibn Azib, and Jabir ibn Abdullah.
- As for the hadith of Anas, it has two routes from him:
The first: through Hammad ibn Zayd: Thabit informed us from Anas, who said:
“I was serving the people drink on the day wine was prohibited, in the house of Abu Talhah. Their drink was nothing but fadikh, made from unripe and dried dates, when suddenly a caller cried out: ‘Indeed, wine has been prohibited!’
“It flowed through the alleyways of Madinah. Abu Talhah said to me: ‘Go out and pour it away.’ So I poured it away.
“They—or some of them—said: ‘So-and-so was killed; so-and-so was killed, while it was still in their bellies!’”
He said—I do not know whether this is part of Anas’s hadith—“Then Allah, Most High, revealed: ‘There is no blame upon those who believe and do righteous deeds for what they have consumed, so long as they fear Allah, believe, and do righteous deeds.’”
Recorded by al-Bukhari (4620), Muslim (6/87)—the wording is his—al-Bayhaqi (8/286), Ahmad (3/227), and Abu Ya'la (6/3362 and 3462).
The other: through Abbad ibn Rashid, from Qatadah, from Anas, who said:
“While I was passing the cup around to Abu Talhah, Abu Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah, Muadh ibn Jabal, Suhayl ibn Bayda, and Abu Dujanah—until their heads began to droop—…” He then related a similar hadith, which includes:
“Some of us performed ablution and some of us bathed, then we went out to the mosque, where the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was reciting: ‘O you who believe, indeed wine, gambling, sacrificial altars, and divining arrows are an abomination, the work of