Volume 8, Book 73, Number 145:
Narrated Abu Musa:
that when Allah’s Apostle sent him and Mu’adh bin Jabal to Yemen, he said to them, “Facilitate
things for the people (treat the people in the most agreeable way), and do not make things difficult
for them, and give them glad tidings, and let them not have aversion (i.e. to make the people hate
good deeds) and you should both work in cooperation and mutual understanding, obey each other.”
Abu Musa said, “O Allah’s Apostle! We are in a land in which a drink named Al Bit’ is prepared from
honey, and another drink named Al-Mizr is prepared from barley.” On that, Allah’s Apostle said, “All
intoxicants (i.e. all alcoholic drinks) are prohibited.”