عيسى بن عبيد

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Faḍl and Ismāʿīl ibn Bishr related to us. They said: Shaddād ibn Ḥakīm related to us. He said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd related to us.

Also ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbda related to us. He said: Naṣr ibn al-Mughīra related to us. He said: ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā informed us, from ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd, who said: ʿIkrima was asked about a man reciting poetry in pursuit of Arabic proficiency. He replied: “There is no harm in it. Attend to pre-Islamic poetry.”

ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn al-Faḍl and Ismāʿīl ibn Bishr related to us. They said: Shaddād ibn Ḥakīm related to us. He said: ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd related to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Burayda, from his father, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, God bless him and grant him peace, asked some people: “In what do you steep your beverages?” They replied: “In gourds, glazed jars and hollowed trunks.” He said: “Drink only from that whose opening you tie shut.” They complained to him, saying: “We have no vessels.” He said: “Drink; everything intoxicating”—or he said—“every intoxication is forbidden.”