there is no harm in examining them for benefit, and because some of them contain a hidden defect that was not apparent to some, so they authenticated it. These include Anas ibn Mālik, Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, and Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. 1. As for the ḥadīth of Anas, there are two chains from him: The first: from Ḥammād ibn Zayd: Thābit informed us from him, he said: I was the one serving the people on the day wine was prohibited in the house of Abū Ṭalḥah, and their drink was nothing but al-faḍīkh: unripe dates and dates, when a caller called out: "Indeed, wine has been prohibited." He said: It flowed through the streets of Madīnah, and Abū Ṭalḥah said to me: Go out and spill it, so I spilled it. They said — or some of them said —: So-and-so was killed, so-and-so was killed while it was in their stomachs! He said — and I do not know if this is from the ḥadīth of Anas —: Then Allāh revealed: "There is no blame upon those who have believed and done righteous deeds for what they have consumed if they fear Allāh and believe and do righteous deeds" (Sūrah al-Māʾidah, 93). It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (4620), Muslim (6/87) — and the wording is his —, al-Bayhaqī (8/286), Aḥmad (3/227), and Abū Yaʿlá (6/3362 and 3462). The other: from ʿAbbād ibn Rāshid from Qatādah from Anas, he said: While I was passing the cup around to Abū Ṭalḥah, Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, Suhayl ibn Bayḍāʾ, and Abū Dujānah — until their heads became heavy — ... a similar ḥadīth, and in it: Some of us performed ablution and some of us bathed, then we went out to the mosque, and the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was reciting: "O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone altars [to other than Allāh], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of..."