Alcohol – According to Quran and Hadith

The Prohibition

Hadith – Al-Tirmidhi #580, Narrated Abu Darda(r.a.)

…don’t drink wine for it is the key to every evil.

Hadith – Abu Dawood, Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab(r.a.)

When the prohibition of wine (was yet to be) declared, Umar(r.a.) said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation about wine. So the following verse of Surat al-Baqarah revealed; “They ask thee concerning wine and gambling. Say: In them is great sin….” Umar(r.a.) was then called and it was recited to him. He said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation about wine. Then the following verse of Surat an-Nisa’ was revealed: “O ye who believe! approach not prayers with a mind befogged….” Thereafter the herald of the Apostle of Allah(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) would call when the (congregational) prayer was performed: Beware, one who is drunk should not come to prayer. Umar was again called and it was recited to him. He said: O Allah, give us a satisfactory explanation about wine. This verse was revealed: “Will ye not then abstain?” Umar said: We abstained.

The Noble Qur’an – al-Baqarah 2:219

They ask you (O Muhammad ) concerning alcoholic drink and gambling. Say: “In them is a great sin, and (some) benefit for men, but the sin of them is greater than their benefit.” And they ask you what they ought to spend. Say: “That which is beyond your needs.” Thus Allâh makes clear to you His Laws in order that you may give thought.

Selling and Buying

Hadith – Al-Tirmidhi #2776, Narrated Anas ibn Malik(r.a.)

Allah’s Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam)cursed ten people in connection with wine: the wine-presser, the one who has it pressed, the one who drinks it, the one who conveys it, the one to whom it is conveyed, the one who serves it, the one who sells it, the one who benefits from the price paid for it, the one who buys it, and the one for whom it is bought.  Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah transmitted it.

Dying when Addicted

Hadith – Muslim #4963, Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar(r.a.)

Allah’s Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam)said: Every intoxicant is Khamr and every intoxicant is forbidden. He who drinks wine in this world and dies while he is addicted to it, not having repented, will not be given a drink in the Hereafter.

Beat for Drunkedness

Hadith – Bukhari 3:509, Narrated ‘Uqba bin Al-Harith(r.a.)

When An-Nuaman or his son was brought in a state of drunkenness, Allah’s Apostle(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) ordered all those who were present in the house to beat him. I was one of those who beat him. We beat him with shoes and palm-leaf stalks.

Hadith – Bukhari 8:764, Narrated Anas bin Malik(r.a.)

The Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) beat a drunk with palm-leaf stalks and shoes. And Abu Bakr gave (such a sinner) forty lashes.

Hadith – Bukhari 8:768, Narrated Abu Salama(r.a.)

Abu Hurairah(r.a.) said, “A man who drank wine was brought to the Prophet . The Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) said, ‘Beat him!’ ” Abu Hurairah(r.a.) added, “So some of us beat him with our hands, and some with their shoes, and some with their garments (by twisting it) like a lash, and then when we finished, someone said to him, ‘May Allah disgrace you!’ On that the Prophet said, ‘Do not say so, for you are helping Satan to overpower him.’ “

Shaitan’s Use of Intoxicants

The Noble Qur’an – Al-Ma’idah 5:91

Shaitân (Satan) wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of Allâh and from As-Salât (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?

Prayer Not Accepted

Hadith – Al-Tirmidhi #3643, narrated Abdullah ibn Umar(r.a.)

Allah’s Messenger(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) said, “If anyone drinks wine Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days, but if he repents Allah will forgive him. If he repeats the offence Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days, but if he repents Allah will forgive him. If he again repeats the offence Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days, but if he repents Allah will forgive him. If he repeats it a fourth time Allah will not accept prayer from him for forty days, and if he repents Allah will not forgive him, but will give him to drink of the river of the fluid flowing from the inhabitants of Hell.”  [Tirmidhi transmitted it, and Nasa’i, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it on the authority of Abdullah ibn Amr(r.a.).]

Medicine

Hadith – Abu Dawood, narrated Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd(r.a.) ibn Tariq(r.a.)

Wa’il said: Tariq ibn Suwayd or Suwayd ibn Tariq asked the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) about wine, but he forbade it. He again asked him, but he forbade him. He said to him: Prophet of Allah, it is a medicine. The Prophet said: No it is a disease.

Hadith

Umm Salamah(r.a.), the wife of the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) reports that he once said: “Allah has not placed a cure for your diseases in things that He has forbidden for you.” (Reported by Baihaqi; Ibn Hibban considers this hadith to be sound.Bukhari has also related it on the authority of Ibn Mas’ud.)

Hadith – Abu Dawood; Sahih Bukhari

Abu ad-Darda(r.a.) reported that the Prophet(sallallahu alaiyhi wasallam) said: “Allah has sent down both the malady and its remedy. For every disease He has created a cure. So seek medical treatment, but never with something the use of which Allah has prohibited.”