Al-Kāfi - The Book of Drinks

Chapter: Wine is Prohibited because of its Effects; whatever has an Effect as the Effect of Wine, it is Wine ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ حُكَيْ٠َالِكٍ الْحَضْرَ٠ِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْجَارُودِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠ْرَ فَقَالَ حَرَّ٠َهَا لِفِعْلِهَا وَ فَسَادِهَا. 4.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Mu’awiyah ibn Hakim from abu Malik al-Hadramiy from abu al- Jarud who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), ‘Why Allah has prohibited wine?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He has prohibited it because of what it does and its destructive effects.’” رسل - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/271))