Umar Died On Alcohol!

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
This hadith has been narrated by Answering Ansar:
We are quoting from Ahl’ul Sunnah’s classical work Riyadh al Nadira Volume 2 page 351:


“Whilst on his deathbed, Umar became deeply affected by the wound and his physician asked Umar ‘Which alcohol would you like to drink?’ Umar said ‘alcohol called nabidh is my preferred choice. This drink was then administered to Umar”.
Riyadh al Nadira Volume 2 page 351

Ibn Hashmi has no objection to the authenticity of the hadith, which is important. However, he gives this lame excuse:

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It should be noted that Answering-Ansar “tweaked” the translation in order to make it sound like they wanted it to. However, the point is that the physician asked Umar what alcohol he wanted to use in order to dull his pain. To this, Umar replied that the only “drink” he drank was simple grape-juice. Umar clearly rejects the physician’s offer to administer a pain-killer of alcohol, and says he just wants grape-juice instead.

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It is arguably the worst reply I have ever read. He makes an unproven claim of a tweaked translation. One wold have expected him to offer the correct translation. Anyway, Umar did not mention grape-juice. The term Nabidh can be used to refer to either alcohol or grape-juice. However, Umar made it pretty clear that he was not referring to the grape-juice:


alcohol called nabidh is my preferred choice

Now, how can we accept a man who died on alcohol as the second-best of the Ummah?!!