Drinking Wine Before Its Prohibition

Question

A periodical called “Sahifa” is published from Khanqah Rahmani (a Sufi lodge), Munger. In its issue of January 1973 an article appeared by the writer Ghiyath al-Islam Rahmani. In his article, discussing the prohibition of wine, he related the following incident: one day a Companion invited Hazrat ‘Ali ﵁ and Hazrat ‘Abd al-Rahman ﵁ and, after the meal, entertained them with wine. Having become intoxicated, they recited the verses of the Qur’an in an improper manner.

Answer

That Hazrat ‘Ali ﵁, before the prohibition of wine, drank wine and, [in that state], led the prayer, reciting in it Surah “Say, O disbelievers!” in an improper manner, is established in the books of hadith and tafsir with a sound (sahih) chain of transmission.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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