Muwatta, Book of drinks (ashriba)

The Book of Drinks (Ashriba) is the twenty-eighth book of the Muwatta in the transmission of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi from Malik ibn Anas, in the edition of Bashshar Awwad Ma'ruf (1997), in the second volume. It occupies pages 409 to 416 in the PDF pagination, and contains 17 numbered texts (2441–2457) in five chapters. It concerns wine alone, the prescribed punishment for drinking it, the nabidh drinks whose steeping is forbidden, and the prohibition of selling and pressing it. ^{1 2}

• The prescribed punishment for wine (2441–2445): the punishment for drinking wine is eighty lashes, the punishment for a slave is half of that, and every intoxicating drink calls for the punishment. ^{1 3}
• Vessels in which steeping is forbidden (2446–2447): the prohibition of nabidh steeped in gourds and in pitched jars. ^{3 4}
• Steeping that is disliked when mixed (2448–2450): steeping unripe and ripe dates, and dates and raisins together. ^{4 5}
• The prohibition of wine (2451–2453): every intoxicant is unlawful, the ghubayra drink, and one who does not repent of drinking wine. ^{5 6}
• General reports on the prohibition of wine (2454–2457): the wine-skin of wine that was given to the Prophet ﷺ, the drink of boiled must in the time of Umar, and Ibn Umar's view on pressing and selling it. ^{6 2}

Malik holds that whoever drinks an intoxicating drink is liable to the prescribed punishment, whether or not he becomes intoxicated. He holds that the prohibition of steeping in gourds and pitched jars has not been abrogated. He reports that Umar permitted the people of Syria a boiled drink that does not intoxicate, that Ubada ibn al-Samit (may God be pleased with him) rejected this, and that Umar then affirmed that what God has made lawful is not made unlawful by anyone, nor what He has made unlawful made lawful. ^{3 2}

Each text of the book has its own record. It names the highest narrator and the chapter, gives the substance of the report in the museum's own wording, and records the editor's takhrij where it is needed. See Wine for the places where its rulings appear in the book. ¹