English translation
6124. Narrated Abū Mūsā that when Allāh's Messenger ﷺ sent him and Mu'ādh bin Jabal to Yemen, he said to them, "Make things easy for the people (treat the people in the most agreeable easy way), and do not make things difficult for them, and give them glad tidings, and do not repel them (i.e., to make the people hate good deeds and to run away from Islam), and you should both work in cooperation and mutual understanding, obey each other." Abū Mūsā said, "O Allāh's Messenger! We are in a land in which a drink named Al-Bit is prepared from honey and another drink named Al-Mizr is prepared (from barley)." On that, Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "All intoxicants (i.e., all alcoholic drinks) are prohibited."
