Musnad Ahmad 18859

Translation

✧ A man called Suwaid ibn Tariq asked the Prophet ﷺ about wine, and he forbade it. He said, "I make it for medicine," so the Prophet ﷺ said: "It is a disease and not a cure."

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What scholars said about it

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• Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr

  صحيح الإسناد

  machine translationThe chain is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19095
• Ibn Ḥazm

  لا حجة فيه لأن في سنده سماك بن حرب وهو يقبل التلقين

  machine translationThere is no proof in it, because its chain includes Simāk b. Ḥarb, and he would accept prompting (talqīn). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 19095

Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2046

Narrators

1. 1
   Wāʾil b. Ḥujr b. Saʿd al-Ḥaḍramī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 44 AH
   وَائِلُ بْنُ حُجْرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْحَضْرَمِيُّصحابي جليل
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAlqamah b. Wāʾil

   Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he did not hear from his fatherd. between 91 and 100 AH
   عَلْقَمَةَ بْنِ وَائِلٍ الْحَضْرَمِيِّصدوق إلا أنه لم يسمع من أبيه
   عن
3. 3
   Simāk b. Ḥarb al-Bakrī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AH
   سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقن
   عن
4. 4
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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