Nabidh
Nabidh is a drink traditionally made from fruits such as raisins/grapes or dates. Nabidh may be non intoxicating, mildy intoxicating, or possibly heavily intoxicating depending on the level of fermentation.
Narrated Abu Hurayrah:
I knew that the Apostle of Allah used to keep fast. I waited for the day when he did not fast to present him the drink (nabidh) which I made in a pumpkin. I then brought it to him while it fermented. He said: Throw it to this wall, for this is a drink of the one who does not believe in Allah and the Last Day. [1]
Rufus of Ephesus (fl. 100 A.D.) wrote a tract on beverage Nabîdh of which Qusta ibn Luqa in his times translated into Arabic by the name Rislah fī al Nabidh[2]. In 2007, Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman after collation of this manuscript copies from different libraries of the world, again reintroduced and published this rare work with several variations from Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences into Urdu and Arabic[3].
Arab writer Ibn Fadlan states that it was drunk by the Vikings [4]. It was brewed for ten days, nabidh was probably alcohol-based and may have included henbane, cannabis, and/or opium [4]. Fadlan also described the drink being given to a female slave who was sacrificed, by strangulation and stabbing, during a ship burial ceremony [4].
References
- ↑ Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 26, Number 3707
- ↑ Rîsâlah fī al Nabidh of Qustâ bin Lûqâ, Introduced by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Supplement to 'Studies in the History of Medicine and Science' (SHMS), Jamia Hamdard, Vol. IX (1985), pp.185-201
- ↑ Rislah fī al Nabidh, (Arabic translation of Qusta ibn Luqa by Rufus. Edited with translation and commentary by Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences, Aligarh, 2007 (ISBN 978-81-901362-7-3)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Taylor, Timothy. The Buried Soul, Beacon Press, 2002, p.175-176
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