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88. 'Abdullāh bin Mas'ūd narrated: "The Prophet ﷺ asked me: "What is in your Idāwah (water skin)?" I said: "Nabīdh." He said: "Dates are wholesome and water is pure." He said: "So he performed Wuḍū' with it." (Da'if)
Abū 'Eisā said: This Hadīth was only reported from Abū Zaid, from 'Abdullāh, from the Prophet ﷺ.
Abū Zaid is a man who is unknown according to the people of Hadīth, we do not know of him narrating other than this Hadīth.
Some of the people of knowledge held the view that Wuḍū' was valid
with Nabīdh, among them was Sufyān [Ath-Thawrī] and others.
Some of the people of knowledge said: One may not use Nabīdh for Wudū. This is the saying of Ash-Shāfi‘ī, Ahmad and Ishāq.
Ishāq said: If a person is stricken with this (problem), performing Wudū with Nabīdh, and (performing) Tayammum (together) is preferred to me.”
Abū ‘Eisā said: The view of those who say that Wudū is not to be performed with Nabīdh, is closer to (what is in) the Book, and more appropriate, because Allāh, Most High said: “So if you do not find water then perform Tayammum with pure earth.”[1]
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[1] Nabīdh is a drink made by soaking dates, raisins, grapes, honey, or something else in water. Often it refers to the type made with dates. It could be intoxicating, or could be non-intoxicating. See Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi.
Commentary
Nabīdh is a beverage of dates or raisins; the dates or raisins are soaked in the water for sometime and then the water is strained to drink.
If Nabīdh is thick and has the active elements of intoxication, making ablution with it is consensually prohibited. Shaikh Taqī Usmani writes, ‘now the four A‘immah are agreed that making ablution with (any kind of Nabīdh) is impermissible. Imām Tahāwī, Ibn Najīm and Qaḏī Khan adopted the same opinion, from among the Aḥnāf. [Dars Tirmidhi, vol. 1. p. 32]
