Hadith 94

Mishkat al-Masabih

Book 17: Prescribed Punishments

Chapter 6

In Explanation of Wine, and the Threat to him who Drinks it - Section 1

باب بيان الخمر ووعيد شاربها - الفصل الأول

Mishkat al-Masabih 3660
وَعَنْ أَبِي مُوسَى أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: مَا أُبالي شرِبتُ الخمرَ أَو عبدْتُ هذهِ السَّارِيةَ دونَ اللَّهِ. رَوَاهُ النَّسَائِيّ
Abu Musa used to say:

It is all the same to me whether I drink wine or worship this pillar instead of God.* Nasa’i transmitted it. *He says that the one sin is as serious as the other.