al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2156
✧ The Beginning of the Prohibition of Wine
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، ثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْحَنَفِيُّ، ثَنَا عَبْدُ الْحَمِيدِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، عَنْ شَهْرِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ غَنْمٍ، عَنْ تَمِيمٍ الدَّارِيِّ ؓ:
أَنَّهُ كَانَ يُهْدِي لِرَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ كُلَّ عَامٍ رَاوِيَةَ خَمْرٍ، فَلَمَّا أَنْزَلَ اللهُ تَعَالَى تَحْرِيمَ الْخَمْرِ جَاءَ بِهَا، فَلَمَّا رَآهَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ ضَحِكَ، وَقَالَ: إِنَّهَا قَدْ حُرِّمَتْ بَعْدَكَ ! فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللهِ، فَأَبِيعُهَا وَأَنْتَفِعُ بِثَمَنِهَا ؟ فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ: لَعَنَ اللهُ الْيَهُودَ ; حَرَّمَ عَلَيْهِمْ شُحُومَ الْبَقَرِ وَالْغَنَمِ، فَأَذَابُوهُ وَبَاعُوهُ. فَإِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَى قَدْ حَرَّمَ الْخَمْرَ وَثَمَنَهَا
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Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr
- Abū Bakr al-Ḥanafī
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Jaʿfar
- Shahr b. Ḥawshab
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Ghanm
- Tamīm al-Dārī
✧ He used to gift the Messenger of God ﷺ a skin of wine every year. When God Almighty sent down the prohibition of wine, he came with it. When the Messenger of God ﷺ saw it, he laughed and said: 'It has been forbidden after you!' He said: 'O Messenger of God, shall I sell it and benefit from its price?' The Prophet ﷺ said: 'May God curse the Jews; He forbade them the fat of cattle and sheep, so they melted it and sold it. Indeed God Almighty has forbidden wine and its price.'
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