ذكر ابن بكير قال: جاء رجل إلى مالك بن أنس…

فقال: يا أبا عبد الله، إنى رأيت رجلا سكرانا يتقافز يريد أن يأخذ القمر، فقلت: امرأتي طالق إن كان يدخل جوف ابن آدم أشر من الخمر.

فقال: ارجع حتى أنظر في مسألتك.

فأتاه من الغد فقال له: ارجع حتى أنظر في مسألتك…
فأتاه من الغد فقال له: امرأتك طالق، إنى تصفحت كتاب الله وسنة نبيه فلم أر شيئا أشر من الربا، لأن الله أذن فيه بالحرب.

 

Ibn Bukayr said: ‘A man came to [Imaam] Maalik ibn Anas….’

And he said: ‘O, Abu Abdullaah; I saw a drunkard man jumping trying to grasp the moon!! 

So I said to myself [making an oath]: ‘Let my wife be divorced if there is anything entering the stomach of a human which is more worse than alcohol!!!’

So he [Imaam Maalik] said: ‘Let me look into this affair, so come back some other time.’

Thus the man came to him the next day.

But he [Imaam Maalik] said: ‘come back some other time; Let me look into this affair.’

Thus the man came to him the next day.

So he [Imaam Maalik] said to him: ‘Your wife is divorced!!! Surely I went through the Book of Allaah & the Sunnah of His prophet: I did not see anything more worse than ribaa (usury), because Allaah announced war upon those who deal in it (ribaa)!!!”

 

Source: Tafseer al-Qurtubi , print of Muassasah ar-Risala , 4 : 405

 

Showing that the consummation of Ribaa is worse than alcohol.

May Allaah rectify our affairs.