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Hadith Analysis: Does drinking alcohol or doing drugs invalidate your prayer or fast for 40 days?

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1 · 0:00If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?Reports that disrespect the Prophet · Intoxicants and substances · Fasting · source not recordedmachine 10 min 57 s0:38on YouTube

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right okay moving on to this question if a person drinks alcohol what is what why is this question important well many people have said this includes the fast if you drink alcohol that your salah is not accepting for 40 days and they rely on some hadith and some people have said that the same applies to the fast so so if Muslims have drunk alcohol or many scholars have included drugs with them now unfortunately drugs are very common in the Muslim community they're not uncommon put it like that it's a shame

0:38

it's a tragedy it's a cancer within our communities but it is there and the truth is many Muslims do take drugs it's a sad reality we make to offer them I think it completely destroys their lives that said should they fast and does they fast does this apply the answer is they're fast is absolutely fine and they should fast this does not apply and this hadith in and of itself is actually unacceptable okay let me tell you what this hadith says and you're gonna be able to know that this hadith is nonsense as soon as you hear it the hadith says man cherrybelle

1:16

hammer was secure whosoever drank alcohol and became intoxicated lamb took below Salatin r- Allah Han for forty days I mean it says mornings but it means days his Salah will not be accepted what in murder the Helena and if he dies he'll go to the Hellfire this is what the hadith says yeah so it's a belief that you'd actually go to hell even though first of all most of this Ummah Hadees and so on we cannot even base beliefs on cobra hat okay we're not even allowed to base any release on just isolated narrations okay

1:55

so this person would go to the Hellfire then the Prophet says if he does Toba then Allah accept him but if he goes back to alcohol then you know the same thing his Salah want be accepted for forty days and if he dies he goes to hell and then the same thing so this is repeated for up to three times then the Prophet allegedly say this is nonsense blasphemous and it's really it's a shame I mean and it's made up against our prophet but nevertheless that he then allegedly said that if the person returns after three times to drinking alcohol can happen Allah Allah

2:30

that is really a duty upon God that he will make him drink right this is drink min rather Attila ban and the Sahaba say what's another little cabal and allegedly the prophecy or sorrow to Alan now so you know the people melting away in the Hellfire you know the kind of stew that is being made by the all they're melting that the stew of the Hellfire that Osama that kind of what's being squeezed into the Hellfire this guy is gonna get that

3:08

to drink this is an utterly unacceptable hadith right utterly unacceptable so what are the some of the problems where is this hadith transmitted this hadith is transmitted in open amar jawan require three rewires of the in necessary for revised of it in the most environmentally of in down those are the books first of all all of these hadith comes through just one companion one companion Abdul Lightner hundred nos he's allegedly the person who says this that's it no they come find to think about such a major thing so long not being accepted

3:47

dying going to hell no no nobody else knows this just absolute number applause then pretty much from him only one person pretty much I mean there's some other names I'll go on to them but mainly mainly in the bulk of all of these narrations is this person called Abdullah nefarious a daily me Abdul like no fear who's a daily me is allegedly transmitting this he's the main transmitter of this in most of all of these narrations there's one two variations I'll mention them but they it comes through this Abdul lagna Phaedra's a daily now who is this person they say oh he's the brother of so-and-so and

4:26

is he reliable oh yes reliable why because oh because he's transmitting from know who said he's reliable how does he become there's a system to make him reliable igner hasn't mentions this guy is unknown we don't even know who this guy is see this is the problem with some of the Mohideen to justify their bid ah you know they they to justify their careers and the work and what they invested in they just certify certain people because otherwise

5:05

they feel that they couldn't that this won't work but even has them highlights look we don't even this guy's much food and he is the main transmitter of this through the one right sir okay then from him you have a reveai players eat and erd people say is a reliable scholar but many people say by the way most I'm sorry some people have said by the way when he transmits from even a daily me there's actually a person in the middle called a boy's heart and as he's called abou III

5:44

sorry I'll haul Annie right now so this whole Annie I with reason how Lonnie is between them now thee but he drops him or somebody before him drops him and in none of the chains from Rabia to amplify rosa de la me is this dimension but then in this chain before him you've got a relative no muslim well he'd have no muslim this guy used to transmit from so many lot of our people so many weak people he would on purpose drop people in the chain that this guy

6:23

was kathira thirdly Santeria even if you shift this chain let's say you go to the sunnat' endure me it's transmitted it begins Dharma begins from Mohammed evening use of Al Farabi right so good by the way Abu Halim says he transmitted hadith our heart even Raj says Faria be transmitted the hadith that having nose he prevents you from having leprosy the shadow fell and that this was a man who manages a minge admin jism he then say is that then later in life he went back tracked and said no I'm you know it's

7:02

it's not yeah he would say that hadith isn't absolute his it's absolute utter lie it is a lie made up against the Prophet the Prophet never said anything like this so you've got people like Fourier beat and then the same chain you've got all the I by the way even I was there even though he's a great Imam in fact great Imam and he does transmit hadith what does they have to say about him he says he transmits hadith from people he says you have to be a hadith lamia be hadith a man Lamia cliff Allah Holly so you take hadith from people who didn't know so well about their

7:39

circumstances you go to the hadith in admin once again the same kind of change from even a daily mean right right then you've got another one okay what about those which paint from even a day limine so in the most of the rapid you've got one from uh from I'm Ruben Shabana be here in jetty now this chain yeah here from iron says LaHood Jetta fee he that this is an Abu Salah say is that this is basically I'm do like now I'm ribbon Haas is grandson who used to abuzer haces used to have a book he's to transmit from this chain is such a weak chain where he says from my father from

8:18

my grandfather so you've got that and the rest you're gonna say that Oh what about there's another chain with the nav Nassim transmitting from Abdullah Mohammed oh but who's in the beginning of the chain it's homogeneous Salman was sorry what does very happy and other people say about him always memory got messed up right this is why Bihari and refused to transmit from him the other hadith in Ahmed wants the game from dignity lemme answered the same thing before you've got the other rewired from Nessa once again you've got them from Dale I

8:58

mean now there is another variation from Mujahid now somebody might say Oh what about that narration that has yes either be saddening hmm ha him be happy abuzer ah drowsiness I all these people have rejected right so the point is let alone others there's many other days kalam in Mujahid himself but my point is that these narrations people they then there's another chain in necessary which has Bucky any who everybody knows bakiyev know who leads and the problems with him and later on that has the same problems you've got the same even adayla me and the same chain the point is that these narrations

9:36

are absolutely isolated they contradict the Quran they contradict our beliefs in Islam a person by drinking alcohol and if he dies does not go to hell we do not believe that Muslims generally do not believe so this hadith cannot be true and it is a matter of belief and therefore we clashes with the Quran it clashes with our principles and he clashes with reason that why just because of that one sin Allah would throw him in the Hellfire as in he's clearly destined for hell because it says if then he is definitely going to hell so that doesn't make any sense it is a hadith life people okay unacceptable

10:16

so the fasts the Salah is valid still and if once again things like alcohol and drugs are bad they are wrong they are Haram on drugs it depends drugs is a spectrum some drugs may not be Haram but they still bad for people I mean is still something that we condemn now that said they do none of these things violate the I mean if you've had them that doesn't mean you can't fast it doesn't mean you're fast won't be accepted that's what I want to say who people well we've stretched this on

10:53

quite a bit what I'm going to

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2019, May 24). Hadith Analysis: Does drinking alcohol or doing drugs invalidate your prayer or fast for 40 days? [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/5phygjpjmmw/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Hadith Analysis: Does drinking alcohol or doing drugs invalidate your prayer or fast for 40 days?}},
  year = {2019},
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  date = {2019-05-24},
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  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
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