Ahmad bin Hanbal (Died 241 AH) narrated :
حدثنا زيد بن الحباب، حدثني حسين، حدثنا عبد الله بن بريدة، قال: دخلت أنا وأبي على معاوية فأجلسنا على الفرش، ثم أتينا بالطعام فأكلنا، ثم أتينا بالشراب فشرب معاوية، ثم ناول أبي، ثم قال: ما شربته منذ حرمه رسولُ الله …
Narrated by Abdullah Ibn Buraydah: “I entered, me and my father, upon Muawiyah and he sat us upon some chairs. Then he brought us some food so we ate it; and then he brought us some Sharab and Muawiyah drank and then he offered my father and then he said ‘I did not drink it since the Messenger of Allah made it Haram’ …”
Now the same narration is quoted via same chain by contemporary of Ahmad bin Hambal – Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Sha’ybah but he cropped out the part in which it is said that Mu’awaiyah took some forbidden drink.
