Mishkat al-Masabih #3489
Prescribed Punishments
Wa’il al-Hadrami said that Tariq b. Suwaid asked the Prophet about wine and he forbade him. When he told him that he made it only as a medicine he replied, “It is not a medicine, but is a disease.”
Muslim transmitted it.
About Mishkat al-Masabih
This hadith is #3489 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Prescribed Punishments. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.