Those who disliked the green earthen jar and prohibited it

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Suwayd bin Muqarrin (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with nabidh in an earthenware jar, and I asked him (about the nabidh). He (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade me from the nabidh. So I took that jar and broke it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the nabidh of green earthenware jars. (The student of Abu Sa'id says:) I asked: (What is the ruling on) white? He said: I do not know.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the nabidh of earthenware jars.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade green earthenware jars. (The student of Ibn Abi Awfa says:) I asked: (Are) white jars (forbidden as well)? Ibn Abi Awfa said: I do not know.

It is narrated from Abd al-Aziz bin Usayd that he said: A man said to Sayyiduna Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him): Give us a ruling on the nabidh of earthenware jars. Sayyiduna Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbidding the nabidh of earthenware jars.

It is narrated from Abayah bin Rifa'ah that his grandfather Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him) saw a green earthenware jar belonging to his family lying in the sun. He took a hard stone, threw it at the jar and broke it. Suddenly ghee came out of it. Sayyiduna Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Save your ghee.

And Yahya said: He thought that there was nabidh in the jar.

It is narrated from a woman of Banu Shayban that her husband came to Banu Shayban and told them that the Commander of the Faithful, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), had forbidden the people from the nabidh of earthenware jars. The narrator states: So we then broke our jar.

Uyaynah bin Abd al-Rahman narrates from his father that Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) returned from a journey and began with the house of Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him). He saw an earthenware jar in the house and asked: What is this? He was told: It holds nabidh for Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah (may Allah be pleased with him). At this he said: I would like you to transfer it into a waterskin.

It is narrated from Dawud bin Farahij that he said: I heard Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) forbidding the nabidh of earthenware jars.

It is narrated from Sa'id bin Jubayr (people brought up the subject of nabidh in his presence) that he said: In my view, if nabidh is in a waterskin there is no harm, but I dislike nabidh in a green earthenware jar.

It is narrated from Malik bin Dinar that Jabir bin Zayd and al-Hasan disliked the nabidh of earthenware jars.

It is narrated from Thabit that he said: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): Has the nabidh of earthenware jars been forbidden? He said: That is what people claim. I asked: Is this ruling established from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: That is what people claim. I asked: Did you hear this ruling from him (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: That is what people claim. And he said: Allah Almighty has turned it away from me.

It is narrated from Abu Jamrah that a woman came to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) (and I, the narrator, had sworn that I would not ask about the nabidh of earthenware jars). That woman said to me: You ask Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) this question. But I refused to ask Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) this question. Then a man asked about the nabidh of earthenware jars, and Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) forbade that man. At this I asked: O Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both)! I prepare nabidh in a green earthenware jar and then drink it while it is sweet and pleasant, and it makes my stomach rumble. Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Do not drink it, even if it is sweeter than honey.

It is narrated from Tawus that a man came to Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and asked him: Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbid the nabidh of earthenware jars? Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) replied: Yes. Tawus says: By Allah! I heard this myself from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both).

It is narrated from Suhayrah bint Jayfar that she said: We (once) performed Hajj, then returned to Madinah and went to see Sayyidah Safiyyah bint Huyayy (may Allah be pleased with her). There we happened to meet some women from the people of Kufah. They said to us: If you wish, we will ask and you listen (quietly), and if you wish, you ask and we will listen. We said: You ask. So they asked about many matters concerning husband and wife and about the menstruating woman. And they asked about the nabidh of earthenware jars. At this Sayyidah Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: O people of Iraq! You have asked us very many questions about the nabidh of earthenware jars, whereas the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) has declared the nabidh of earthenware jars forbidden. There is nothing against any one of you if she cooks her dates, then rubs them, strains them, then puts it in a waterskin and closes its mouth by tying a cord or the like over it; then, when that drink has become pleasant, she drinks it herself and also gives it to her husband to drink.

It is narrated from Shumaysah Umm Salamah al-Atakiyyah that she said: I heard Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) say: Never drink in a large deep jar, an earthenware jar or a gourd (made into a vessel).

It is narrated from Karimah bint Hammam that she heard Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) say: "Beware! Keep away from the nabidh of green earthenware jars."

It is narrated from Abd al-A'la bin Kaysan that he said: I heard Ibn Abi al-Hudhayl say: I have nothing in my heart about the nabidh of earthenware jars except that Umar bin Abd al-Aziz forbade it, and he was a just imam.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Do not drink the nabidh of earthenware jars.