Umar (la) Loved Alcohol

Umar used to drink alcohol

We read in Ahl'ul Sunnah's authority work "al Mustaraf fi kul Mustadhruf Volume 2 page 229, Chapter 7

the following

"Three verses were revealed by Allah (swt) in connection with the prohibition on alcohol. In regards to alcohol people asked questions on it to Rasulullah (s), who replied that it was a great sin. After some time, some Muslims began to refrain from drinking alcohol, whilst others continued to drink it, this got to a point whereby on one occasion a man entered the Mosque and proceeded to speak nonsense during Salaat. It was at this time that the verse descended "O you believe do not approach prayers whilst intoxicated. Some people then left alcohol, whilst others continued to drink, to the point that Umar drank alcohol, mounted onto a camel and then proceeded to throw an object at Abdul Rahman bin Auf, that caused his head to split open, he then began to sing about the kuffar participant of Badr. His actions reached a point of kufr and transgression, he (Umar) began to say 'I won't fast in Ramadan, and you cannot stop me from drinking. When Rasulullah (s) received news of this, he left the mosque and hit Umar on the head with an object, it was then that this verse descended 'Satan wants you to stop�' Umar then said 'Yes I have stopped, I have stopped'. 

Umar used to keep alcohol in his water flask

 We read in Ahl'ul Sunnah authority commentary of Sahih al Bukhari, Fathul Bari Volume 5 page 341 that:

"On one occasion Saeed bin Zai drank from Umar's water flask and he became intoxicated. Umar began to beat him and Saeed said to him 'My only wrongdoing was that I drank from your flask' (Upon hearing this) Umar replied 'I am beating you, as I want to know why you became intoxicated".

Hadhrath Umar’s love of ‘Nabidh’ alcohol

Nabidh is a drink that is prepared by fermenting crushed dates / grapes. It was Hadhrath Umar’s favourite alcoholic drink.


We read in Muwatta of Imam Malik, Book 45, Number 45.6.21, Chapter Madina:


Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim that Aslam, the mawla of Umar ibn al-Khattab informed him that he had visited Abdullah ibn Ayyash al-Makhzumi. He saw that he had some nabidh with him and he was at that moment on the way to Makka. Aslam said to him, ”Umar ibn al-Khattab loves this drink.” Abdullah ibn Ayyash therefore carried a great drinking bowl and brought it to Umar ibn al-Khattab and placed it before him. Umar brought it near to him and then raised his head. Umar said, “This drink is good,” so he drank some of it and then passed it to a man on his right”.

Umar drank Nabidh alcohol on his deathbed

We are quoting from Ahl’ul Sunnah’s classical work Riyadh al Nadira Volume 2 page 351: (scanned page given below)


“Whilst on his deathbed, Umar became deeply affected by the wound and his physician asked Umar ‘Which alcohol would you like to drink?’ Umar said ‘alcohol called nabidh is my preferred choice. This drink was then administered to Umar”.

Nabidh consists of Alcohol

We read in Sunan Abu Daud Book 26, Number 3707:


There is no way that Ahl’ul Sunnah can claim that ‘Nabidh’ does not constitute alcohol, since Rasulullah (s) had specifically referred to this as haraam.


“Narrated Abu Hurayrah:
I knew that the Apostle of Allah (saww) 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 while it fermented. He said: Throw it to this wall, for this is a drink of the one who does not believe in Allah and the Last Day”.