Abdullah bin Dailami says: I entered upon Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both), he was in a garden of his in Ta’if called Wahat. Next to him sat a young man from the Quraysh, who was accused of drinking wine. I said: O Abdullah! A hadith has reached me from you that whoever drinks a sip of wine, Allah Almighty does not accept his repentance for forty days, and wretched is he who is wretched from his mother’s womb, and whoever comes to Bayt al-Maqdis, and his coming is only for prayer, then he comes out of his sins as the day his mother gave birth to him. When the young man heard the mention of the punishment for wine, he withdrew his hand from the hand of Sayyiduna Abdullah and left. Then Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I do not allow anyone to attribute to me what I have not said. I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever drinks a sip of wine, Allah Almighty will not accept his prayer for forty days. If he repents, Allah Almighty will accept his repentance. If he drinks again, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days. If he repents, Allah Almighty will accept his repentance. If he returns again—I do not remember whether he mentioned the third or fourth time—then he said: If after that he drinks again, it is Allah Almighty’s right to make him drink from a river flowing with the pus of the people of Hell.