While the Messenger of Allah [SAW] was walking, he approached some people and heard a confused noise coming from them. He said: "What is this noise?" They said: "O Messenger of Allah, they have a drink that they drink." He sent for those people and said: "In what do you soak (fruit - to make that drink)?" They said: "We soak (fruits) in vessels carved from wood and gourds, and we have no water skins (that can be closed)." He said: "Do not drink except from a vessel that can be tied closed." Then as much time as Allah willed passed, then he went back to them and they had fallen sick and become pallid. He said: "Why do you look so ill?" They said: "O Messenger of Allah, our land is unhealthy and you forbade to us everything except that which was in a vessel that could be tied closed." He said: "Drink, but every intoxicant is unlawful." (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5655)
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَيْنَا هُوَ يَسِيرُ إِذْ حَلَّ بِقَوْمٍ فَسَمِعَ لَهُمْ لَغَطًا فَقَالَ «مَا هَذَا الصَّوْتُ؟» قَالُوا يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ يَشْرَبُونَهُ فَبَعَثَ إِلَى الْقَوْمِ فَدَعَا بِهِمْ فَقَالَ «فِي أَيِّ شَيْءٍ تَنْتَبِذُونَ؟» قَالُوا نَنْتَبِذُ فِي النَّقِيرِ وَفِي الدُّبَّاءِ وَلَيْسَ لَنَا ظُرُوفٌ فَقَالَ «لَا تَشْرَبُوا إِلَّا فِيمَا أَوْكَيْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ» قَالَ فَلَبِثَ بِذَلِكَ مَا شَاءَ اللهُ أَنْ يَلْبَثَ ثُمَّ رَجَعَ عَلَيْهِمْ فَإِذَا هُمْ قَدْ أَصَابَهُمْ وَبَاءٌ وَصَفَّرُوا قَالَ «مَا لِي أَرَاكُمْ قَدْ هَلَكْتُمْ؟» قَالُوا يَا نَبِيَّ اللهِ أَرْضُنَا وَبِيئَةٌ وَحَرَّمْتَ عَلَيْنَا إِلَّا مَا أَوْكَيْنَا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالَ «اشْرَبُوا وَكُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ حَرَامٌ»