Islam Question and Answer - Ruling on drinking from the mouth of the bottle

Ruling on drinking from the mouth of the bottle

Can the prohibition on drinking from the mouth of the waterskin be applied to drinking from the mouth of the bottle?.

 

Praise be to Allaah.

It was proven that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allaah
be upon him) forbade drinking from the mouth of the waterskin. Narrated by
al-Bukhaari (5628) and Muslim (5629) from the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah and
Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with them). 

The siqa’ (translated here as waterskin) is the vessel in
which water is put and it has a mouth from which it is drunk. 

The scholars (may Allaah have mercy on them) mentioned a
number of reasons for this prohibition: 

1.

That what is inside the waterskin cannot be seen, and there
may be an insect or snake inside it which could cause harm or annoyance, as
it was narrated that a man drank from the mouth of the waterskin and a snake
came out of it. 

This reason does not apply with regard to drinking from
bottles nowadays, because what is inside them can usually be seen. 

2.

That the person who drinks from the mouth of the waterskin
may not be able to control the flow of water, so he will get more than he
needs and it will choke him or make his clothes wet. 

This reason does apply with regard to those who drink from
bottles, as we see happen with a lot of people. 

3.

The prohibition is there so that his saliva will not get on
the mouth of the bottle or be mixed with the water inside it, or so that his
breath will not get on the mouth of the bottle and thus put others off. This
may be a cause of the spread of disease. 

This reason is also applicable to those who drink from
bottles, but it applies to the one who touches the bottle with his mouth.
But if he pours from it and does not touch it with his mouth, there ts
nothing wrong with it. 

Similarly, it applies in cases where someone else will drink
from the same bottle after him. But if the bottle is just for him, there is
nothing wrong with drinking from its mouth in that case. 

It is not unlikely that the prohibition on drinking from the
mouth of the waterskin was for all of these reasons, as was stated by Ibn
al-‘Arabi, Ibn Abi Hamzah and others (may Allaah have mercy on them). 

See Fath al-Baari, commentary on hadeeth number 5628. 

Some of these reasons, as stated above, apply to the one who
drinks from a bottle, hence he should not drink from its mouth, especially
if someone else is going to drink from the bottle too. 

And Allaah knows best.

 

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