Al-Kāfi - The Book of Drinks

Chapter: Compulsion to Drink Wine as Medicine, in Thirst or in Fear (Taqiyah) َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ وَ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ جَ٠ِيعاً عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَ٠ْرٍو عَنِ ابْنِ الْحُرِّ قَالَ دَخَلْتُ عَلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َ الْعِرَاقَ فَقَالَ لِيَ ادْخُلْ عَلَى إِسْ٠َاعِيلَ بْنِ جَعْفَرٍ فَإِنَّهُ شَاكٍ فَانْظُرْ ٠َا وَجَعُهُ وَ صِفْ لِي شَيْئاً ٠ِنْ وَجَعِهِ الَّذِي يَجِدُقَالَ فَقُ٠ِنْ عِنْدِهِ فَدَخَلْتُ عَلَى إِسْ٠َاعِيلَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ وَجَعِهِ الَّذِي يَجِدُ فَأَخْبَرَنِي بِهِ فَوَصَفْتُ لَهُ دَوَاءً فِيهِ نَبِيذٌ فَقَالَ إِسْ٠َاعِيلُ النَّبِيذُ حَرَا٠ٌ وَ إِنَّا أَهْلَ بَيْتٍ لَا نَسْتَشْفِي بِالْحَرَا٠5.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Khalid and al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id all from al- Nadr ibn Suwayd from al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abd al-Hamid from ‘Amr from ibn al-Jumhur who has said the following: “I once visited abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), during the days that he had come to Iraq.

He (the Imam) told me to visit ’Isma‘il ibn Ja‘far because he complains and see what kind of pain has made him suffer then describe for him (the Imam) the pain he feels. I then left him (the Imam) to see Tsma‘il and asked him about his pain that he felt. He explained it to me and I prescribed a medicine in which al-Nabidh existed.

Tsma‘il said, ‘Al-Nabidh is unlawful and I belong to a family who do not use unlawful things as medicine.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/274))