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Immediate
Submission
of the Companions to the Commandment declaring Wine Unlawful |
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Anas bin Malik(Allah be pleased with him) reported : I was the
cup-bearer of some people in the house of Abu Talha(Allah be pleased with
him) on the day when liquor was forbidden.
I was serving a specially prepared strong liquor of fermented
date-palm to a group of leading men like Abu Dujana, Abu ‘Ubaida ibn
Jarah, Mu’adh bin Jabal(Allah be pleased with them).
As the alcoholic drink started to show its effects on the guests as
announcement was heard : “surely Al-Khamr
has been declared unlawful.”
Anas (Allah be pleased with him) said : “We threw away the
remaining liquor in our cups and broke the pots in which other drinks were
being fermented.”
Some of the men performed ablution to purify
themselves from a drink they had been guiltlessly taking only a few
moments before.
Others washed their whole bodies in an act of purification.
They perfumed themselves and walked to the Mosque of Medina to see
the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
Hadrat Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported :”I was serving
people with wine in the house of Abu Talha-and in those days wine was fadikh(date-wine)-that
the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) ordered an
announcer to announce: “Lo, verily, wine has been declared unlawful”.
On this Abu Talha said :“Come out and split it down.”
“So I went out and poured it down.” (Bukhari)
Hadarat Abu Buraida reported his father saying : As we were sitting
around our wine, while we were on a tillah
and
were three or four(Companions) and we had jars ( of wine) and we used to
drink wine lawfully, I stood up till the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him) came when the (ordinance of) unlawfulness of wine
had been revealed.
So I came to my Companions and recited that Commandments to them.
They poured down wine from their jars and exclaimed :
“We have abstained, we have abstained.”
Hadrat ibn ‘Abus (Allah be please with him) reported that as the
Commandment regarding unlawfulness of wine was revealed the Companions
went to one another and declared : “Wine has been prohibited and is
tantamount to polystheism.(Tibrani)
As the Verses 5: 90,91 were revealed, these were recited to Hadrat
‘Uma (Allah be pleased with him) upto the words “Then will ye(not)
shun ?” Upon this he said : “We have abstained ; we have abstained.”
From these events you can well imagine the great impact of the Holy
Qur’an on the hearts of the believers in the early age of Islam.
Allah, the Exalted says : “Verily,
the believers are those whose hearts feel fear when Allah is mentioned and
when the revelations are recited unto them, they increase their faith, and
who trust their Lord.”
(8:2) Again
Allah Almighty says :
“And had We caused this Qur’an to descend upon a mountain thou
(O Prophet) would have seen it humbled, rent asunder by fear of Allah.
Such similitudes coin We for mankind that haply they may
reflect.” (59:21) |
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The
jurists are at variance among themselves regarding cure by wine, filt and
poison. Some
jurists have declared it lawful while others have held such a cure as
unlawful.
The most correct view in this context is that such a cure is
permissible under pressing circumstances for in Bukhari and Muslim we find
a tradition
that some people of ‘Arina reached Medina but the climate of the
town did not suit them and their complexion of face turned pale and they
suffered flatulence.
Upon this the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) advised them to go to the camels of charity and drink their urine and
milk. They
went their and drank urine and milk by which they were cured.
The tradition deals with the compelling circumstances which
rendered unlawful food and drink as permissible on the authority of the
Qur’anic verse:
“And He hath expounded unto you what he hath declared unlawful
for you save that which you are compelled unto”.
(6:119)
But cure by wine is discretional as it is drunk to make stomach
strong for which there is no authority in the Islamic Shari’ah.
Cure by wine is, therefore, unlawful because Hadrat Umm Salama
(Allah be pleased with her) has reported:
“My
daughter complained to me of sickness.
So I prepared nabith for
her in an earthen pot.
As it was boiling, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him) came to me and asked :
“What is this, Umm Slama ?” I told him that I cured my daughter
by that (nabith).
Upon this Allah’s Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) said
: “Allah has not laid the cure of (the disease of) my ummath in things that He has declared unlawful.”
Dailama al-Humairi(Allah be pleased with him) reported : I asked
the Holy Prophet (peace and blesings of Allah be upon him) about some
problem and said : “we live in a cold place and we do hard work there
and we prepare wine from wheat, which gives us strength in our works and
in the chill of our cities.
Upon this the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) said :
Does it intoxicate ? “Yes”, said I.
The Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said :
Give it up.
I said, ”People cannot give it up.”
Upon the Holy Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
remarked :If they do not give it up, then fight with them. (Abu
Dawud)
Abu Darda ‘(Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Holy
Prophet(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said :”Verily, Allah
sent down ailment and cure (thereof).
So he made a cure for every ailment.
So seek cure but seek not cure by unlawful things.” (Abu
Dawud)
Wa’il al-Hadrami (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Tariq
b. Suwaid al-Ju’fi(Allah be pleased with him) asked Allah’s Messenger
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) about wine and he forbade (its
use) and he expressed
hatred that it should be prepared.
Al-Ju’fi said, “I prepare it as a medicine whereupon he (the
Holy Prophet) said :
It is no medicine, but an ailment.
(Muslim and Abu Dawud) |