Nor should you be deceived by what appears in some books of jurisprudence from certain scholars permitting a particular type of it, with details mentioned in that regard. It is merely a scholar’s slip—one that ought to have been buried and never mentioned, were it not for blind partisanship.
- “He forbade blowing into a drink. A man said to him, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I cannot quench my thirst in a single breath.’ The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said to him, ‘Then remove the cup from your mouth and breathe.’ He said, ‘But I see particles in it.’ He said, ‘Then pour it out.’”
Mālik (2/925/12) narrated it, and from him al-Tirmidhī (1/345), Ibn Ḥibbān in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1367), al-Ḥākim (4/139), and Aḥmad (3/32), all through Mālik, from Ayyūb ibn Ḥabīb, the client of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, from Abū al-Muthannā al-Juhanī, who said:
“I was with Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam when Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī entered upon him. Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam asked him, ‘Did you hear from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that he forbade blowing into a drink?’ Abū Saʿīd replied, ‘Yes.’ Then a man said, ‘O Messenger of Allah ...’” He then related the hadith.
Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a good and authentic hadith.”
Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.
I say: Fulayḥ also narrated it from Ayyūb ibn Ḥabīb through the same chain. Aḥmad narrated it (3/68–69).