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5613. It was narrated that Abū Hurairah said: "I know that the
Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was fasting, so I prepared some Nabīdh for him to break his fast that I had prepared for him in a gourd. I brought it to him and he said: 'Bring it here.' So I brought it closer and it was bubbling. He said: 'Throw it against the wall (throw it away), for this is the drink of one who does not believe in Allāh or the Last Day.'" (Sahīh)
Abū 'Abdur-Raḥmān (An-Nasā'ī) said: This is evidence that intoxicants are forbidden in both small and large amounts, and that it is not as those who try to deceive themselves say, that what is forbidden is the last part of the drink and that what is drunk before that is permissible. There is no dispute among the scholars that reaching the stage of intoxication does not happen only with the last sip and not with the first or second. And with Allāh is the facilitation to do what is right.
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Commentary
1. 'It was bubbling' means it contained signs of intoxication.
2. 'Those who do not believe' means this is the drink of the disbelievers, not of Muslims. It does not signify that the one who drinks it would become a disbeliever.
