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nasai:5719Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Dāwud > Saʾalt Saʿīd Mā al-Sharāb al--Adhī Aḥallah ʿUmar

"I asked Sa'eed: 'What is the drink that 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, regarded as permissible?' He said: 'That which has been cooked until two-third has gone and one-third is left.'"  

النسائي:٥٧١٩أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ قَالَ

سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدًا مَا الشَّرَابُ الَّذِي أَحَلَّهُ عُمَرُ ؓ قَالَ الَّذِي يُطْبَخُ حَتَّى يَذْهَبَ ثُلُثَاهُ وَيَبْقَى ثُلُثُهُ  


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nasai-kubra:5206Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Dāwud > Saʾalt Saʿīd Mā al-Sharāb al--Adhī Aḥallah ʿUmar

"I heard Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab say, when a Bedouin asked him about a drink that had been cooked and reduced by half: 'No, not until two-third has gone and one-third is left.'" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 5722)   

الكبرى للنسائي:٥٢٠٦أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ دَاوُدَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدًا مَا الشَّرَابُ الَّذِي أَحَلَّهُ عُمَرُ قَالَ

«الَّذِي يُطْبَخُ حَتَّى يَذْهَبَ ثُلُثَاهُ وَيَبْقَى ثُلُثُهُ»