Food, Drink & Dietary Laws

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I forbade you three things, and now I command (permit) you for them. I forbade you to visit graves, now you may visit them, for in visiting them there is admonition. I forbade you drinks except...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

When the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade the use of(wine) vessels, Ansar said: They are inevitable for us. Thereupon he said: If so, then no

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

The Prophet(ﷺ) mentioned the vessels: pumpkins, green jarrs, vessels smeared with pitch and hollow stumps. A desert Arab said: We have no vessels(except these). He said: Drink(from them) what is lawful.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Avoid that which produces intoxication.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Dates were steeped for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in a skin, but when they could not find a skin, they were steeped for him in a small stone vessel.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade mixing of raisins and dried dates: and unripe dates and fresh dates.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Make nabidh (drink) from each separately. He (the narrator Yahya) said: Abu Salamah bin 'Abd al-Rahman narrated to me this tradition on the authority of Abu Qatadah from the Prophet (ﷺ)

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

A man from among the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade (mixing) unripe dates and dried dates, and (mixing) raisins and dried dates.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Kabshah, daughter of AbuMaryam, asked Umm Salamah (Allah be pleased with her): What did the Prophet (ﷺ) prohibit? She replied: He forbade us to boil dates so much so that the kernels are spoiled, and to mix raisins and dried...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Raisins were steeped for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and then dried dates were infused in them, or dried dates were steeped and then raisins were infused in them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Safiyyah, daughter of Atiyyah, said: I entered upon Aisha with some women of AbdulQays, and asked her about mixing dried dates and raisins (for drink). She replied: I used to take a handful of dried dates and a handful or...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

I am afraid it may not be muzza from which(the people of) ‘Abd al-Qais were prohibited. I asked Qatadah : What is muzza’? He replied: Drink of dates made in a green jar and vessels smeared with pitch.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

We came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said to him: Messenger of Allah, you know who we are, from where we are and to whom we have come. He said: To Allah and His Apostle. We said: Messenger of Allah,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Dates were steeped for the Apostel of Allah (ﷺ) in skin which was tied up at the top and had a mouth. What was steeped in the morning he would drink in the evening and what was steeped in the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Amrah said on the authority of Aisha that she would steep dates for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in the morning. When the evening came, he took his dinner and drank it after his dinner. If anything remained, she poured...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Raisins were steeped for the Prophet (ﷺ) and he would drink it in the morning and the night after, the following day and the night after. He then gave orders and it was given to servants to drinks or poured...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

I find the smell of gum (maghafir) from you. He then entered upon one of them; she said that to him. Thereupon he said : No, I drank honey at (the house of) Zainab daughter of jahsh, and I will...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) liked sweet meats and honey. The narrator then mentioned a part of the tradition mentioned above. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) felt it hard on him to find smell from him. In this tradition saudah said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

I knew that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to keep fast. I waited for the day when he did not fast to present him the drink (nabidh) which I made in a pumpkin. I then brought it to him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade that a man should drink while standing.