المسكرات

المسكرات

Intoxicants in the forty-sixth hadith of Ibn Rajab's additions are a genus not confined to wine: 'every intoxicant is forbidden' — asked about Yemen's al-Bit', a honey-wine, and al-Mizr, a barley-wine, the Prophet generalised the ruling to every intoxicant, Muslim's wording adding 'everything that intoxicates away from the prayer is forbidden'; Ibn Rajab calls this hadith the foundation of the prohibition of all substances that veil the intellect, tracing its staging: wine was first forbidden at the approach of prayer through the verse 'do not approach the prayer while intoxicated' — after an Emigrant fumbled his recitation — and only later forbidden absolutely (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 881).