This report is problematic in both its chain of transmission and its content. The report about al-Kumayt is attributed to Imam al-Kazim (peace be upon him), even though al-Kumayt did not live to meet the Imam: the Imam was born after al-Kumayt’s death.
The text is also incoherent: its opening and closing passages do not fit together, and there is no connection between the poem and wine. Moreover, there was no reason for anyone to dissimulate about wine at that time, since dissimulation concerning wine had no place under the Umayyads.
On the other hand, a report about al-Kumayt is transmitted from Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him), and its wording differs:
دخل الکمیت بن زید الأسدی على أبی جعفر محمد بن علی علیهما السلام فقال له:
یا کمیت أنت القائل: فالآن صرت إلى امیه و الامور إلى مصائر «1»؟
قال: نعم، قد قلت، و لا و الله ما أردت به إلا الدنیا، و لقد عرفت فضلکم.
قال: أما أن قلت ذلک، إن التقیه لتحل.
عوالم العلوم و المعارف والأحوال من الآیات و الأخبار و الأقوال (مستدرک سیده النساء إلى الإمام الجواد، ج19-الباقرع، ص: 403
Al-Kumayt died in 126 AH.
بحار الأنوار (ط - بیروت)، ج47، ص: 324
Al-Kumayt’s death: 126 AH.
اعلام الورى ولد ع بالأبواء منزل بین مکه و المدینه لسبع خلون من صفر سنه ثمان و عشرین و مائه و قبض ع ببغداد فی حبس سندی بن شاهک لخمس بقین من رجب و قیل أیضا لخمس خلون من رجب سنه ثلاث و ثمانین و مائه و له یومئذ خمس و خمسون سنه و...
بحار الأنوار (ط - بیروت)، ج48، ص: 2
Iʿlām al-Warā: Imam Musa ibn Jaʿfar (peace be upon him) was born at al-Abwāʾ, between Mecca and Medina, on the seventh of Safar, 128 AH. He died in 183 AH, five days before the end of Rajab, in the prison of Sind ibn Shahak in Baghdad. It is also said that he died five days into Rajab. He was then fifty-five years old.