(raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu): "The prohibition of wine was revealed on the day it was revealed, and it is from five things: grapes, dates, honey, wheat, and barley. And wine is that which obscures the mind," and as he (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Every intoxicant is wine, and every wine is forbidden," and his saying: "What intoxicates in large amounts, a small amount of it is forbidden." I say: this distinction, in addition to contradicting these texts and others, is contrary to correct analogy and sound reasoning. How can there be a difference between prohibiting a small amount that does not intoxicate from grape wine, which intoxicates in large amounts, and permitting a small amount that does not intoxicate from corn wine, which intoxicates? And was the small amount prohibited except because it is a means to the intoxicating large amount? So how can this be permitted and that prohibited when the cause is the same?! By Allāh, this is one of the strange things that is hardly believable to be attributed to anyone from the people of knowledge, were it not for the authenticity of that from them. More astonishing is that the one who adopted this view is among those well-known for being from the people of analogy and opinion! Ibn al-Qayyim said in "Tahdhīb al-Sunan" (5/263) after mentioning some of the aforementioned texts: "These authentic and explicit texts regarding the inclusion of these drinks made from things other than grapes under the name of wine in the language in which the Quran was revealed and with which the Companions were addressed suffice to..