The argument of those who permitted an intoxicant as long as one does not drink an intoxicating amount, and the reply to it

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) was asked about this verse, and he said: That of the fruits which contains intoxication is unlawful, and the good provision from the fruits is lawful.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: That of those fruits which becomes intoxicating, like wine, is unlawful; and "good provision" [Surah al-Nahl: 67], such as vinegar, fruit preserves and nabidh, is lawful for the Muslims.

Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) said concerning this verse, "And from the fruits of the date-palms and the grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision" [Surah al-Nahl: 67]: "Intoxicant" (sakar) means wine before it was made unlawful, and "good provision" means its food.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him), al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) and Abu Razin (may Allah have mercy on him) said that this verse of Surah al-Nahl is abrogated.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "Wine, whether little or much, is unlawful, and every intoxicating drink is unlawful." Al-sakar means that which intoxicates.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that wine, whether little or much, is unlawful, and intoxicating drink is unlawful.

This has already passed before.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "A small quantity of whatever intoxicates in a large quantity is unlawful."

Sayyiduna Abu Burdah (may Allah be pleased with him), who is not the son of Abu Musa, narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Drink, but do not become intoxicated."
Abu al-Ahwas Sallam bin Sulaym narrated it this way. Al-Nasa'i said: This hadith is munkar (rejected); Abu al-Ahwas erred in it, and we know of no one among the students of Simak who corroborated him. Ahmad bin Hanbal said: Abu al-Ahwas used to err in this hadith. Abu Awanah narrated it from Simak, from Qirsafah, a woman of their people, from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: "Drink, but do not become intoxicated." This too is not established; it is not known who this Qirsafah is, and what is well known from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) is the opposite of that.

Imam al-Daraqutni (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu al-Ahwas erred in both its chain and its text. Others narrated it from Simak, from al-Qasim, from Ibn Buraydah, from his father, with the words: "And do not drink an intoxicant." Likewise Muharib bin Dithar narrated it from Ibn Buraydah, from his father.

Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I had forbidden you from making nabidh except in a waterskin; so you may prepare it in all waterskins and drink it, but do not drink an intoxicant."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Every intoxicating thing that you drink and become intoxicated by is unlawful."

Abdullah bin al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) said: The previous narration of Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) is false (batil).

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that it was his view and the view of his companions that if drinking a drink causes intoxication, it is not permissible for it to be drunk again.
Al-Daraqutni said: Hajjaj bin Artah is da'if (weak), and the previous report is in fact a saying of Ibrahim al-Nakha'i.

Zakariyya bin Adi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) came to Kufah while he had some illness. Waki' (may Allah have mercy on him), his companions and the people of Kufah came to him and began discussing with him. When they reached (the issue of) drink, Ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) began citing to them hadith of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the Muhajirun and the Ansar, and they said: "No, narrate to us from our own hadith." So Ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) narrated through al-Hasan bin Amr al-Fuqaymi, from Fudayl bin Amr, from Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him), that they used to say: "A drink in which intoxication develops may never be drunk." At that their heads bowed. Ibn al-Mubarak (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "I have never seen people stranger than these: I narrated to them the reports of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) from the Muhajirun, the Ansar and the Tabi'in, and they would not accept them; then I narrated from Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) and mentioned his saying, and their heads bowed."