Mishkat
al-Masabih

مشكاة المصابيح

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Prescribed Punishments

كتاب الحدود

 

Chapter 6b: In Explanation of Wine, and the Threat to him who Drinks it - Section 2

باب بيان الخمر ووعيد شاربها - الفصل الثاني

Mishkat al-Masabih 3646

‘A’isha reported Allah's Messenger ﷺ as saying, “If a faraq of anything causes intoxication, a handful of it is forbidden.”* Ahmad, Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud transmitted it. * To drink as much as a faraq (see p. 577) would be almost impossible, so the point of the tradition is to forbid anything which might in any conceivable circumstances cause intoxication.

وَعَنْ عَائِشَةَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَا أسكرَ مِنْهُ الفرْقُ فَمِلْءُ الْكَفِّ مِنْهُ حَرَامٌ» . رَوَاهُ أَحْمَدُ وَالتِّرْمِذِيُّ وَأَبُو دَاوُد