Chapters on Hunting

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Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from Abū Saʿd al-Baqqāl, who heard Anas ibn Mālik say: The wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to exchange locusts on platters as gifts.

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Hārūn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥammāl narrated to us: Hāshim ibn al-Qāsim narrated to us: Ziyād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUlāthah narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, from his father, from Jābir and Anas ibn Mālik, that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed against locusts, he would say: O God, destroy the large ones, kill the small ones, ruin their eggs, eradicate them, and keep their mouths from our livelihoods and provisions. You are the One who hears supplication. A man said: Messenger of God, how can you pray for the eradication of an army among the armies of God? He said: Locusts are the offspring scattered by fish in the sea. Hāshim said: Ziyād said: Someone who had seen the fish scattering them narrated this to me.

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ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Wakīʿ narrated to us: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Abū al-Muhazzim, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: We went out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on a pilgrimage or minor pilgrimage. We encountered a dense swarm of locusts—or a kind of locusts—and began striking them with our whips and sandals. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Eat them, for they are game from the sea.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb narrated to us; they said: Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī narrated to us: Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited killing the shrike, frog, ant, and hoopoe.

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Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Maʿmar informed us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited killing four creatures: ants, bees, hoopoes, and shrikes.

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarḥ and Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā, both from Egypt, narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: Yūnus informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib and Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet of God (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: One of the prophets was bitten by an ant, so he ordered the ant colony to be burned. Then God, Mighty and Sublime, revealed to him: Because one ant bit you, you destroyed a community that glorifies God. [Another chain:] Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: Abū Ṣāliḥ narrated to us: al-Layth told me, from Yūnus, from Ibn Shihāb, with the same chain and similar wording; he said “bit.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah narrated to us, from Ayyūb, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, that a relative of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal was flicking pebbles. He forbade him and said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade this pebble-flicking and said: It does not catch game or injure an enemy, but it breaks a tooth and pierces an eye. The man did it again, so he said: I tell you that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade it, and you do it again? I will never speak to you again.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: ʿUbayd ibn Saʿīd narrated to us. [Another chain:] Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us. Both said: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Qatādah, from ʿUqbah ibn Ṣuhbān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited pebble-flicking and said: It does not kill game or harm an enemy, but it pierces an eye and breaks a tooth.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Jubayr, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, from Umm Sharīk, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered her to kill geckos.

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Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī al-Shawārib narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār narrated to us: Suhayl narrated to us, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Whoever kills a gecko with the first strike receives such-and-such a number of good deeds. Whoever kills it with the second receives such-and-such a number—fewer than the first. Whoever kills it with the third strike receives such-and-such a number of good deeds—fewer than what was mentioned for the second.

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Sarḥ narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb narrated to us: Yūnus informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) called the gecko “the little troublemaker.”

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Yūnus ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, from Nāfiʿ, from Sāʾibah—the freedwoman of al-Fākih ibn al-Mughīrah—who said: She visited ʿĀʾishah and saw a spear lying in her house. She asked: Mother of the Believers, what do you do with this? She replied: We kill these geckos with it, for the Prophet of God (peace and blessings be upon him) told us that when Abraham was thrown into the fire, every creature on earth helped put it out except the gecko, which blew on the fire. So the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that it be killed.

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Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ informed us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah informed us, from al-Zuhrī: Abū Idrīs told me, from Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited eating any predator with fangs. Al-Zuhrī said: I had not heard this until I entered Syria.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Muʿāwiyah ibn Hishām narrated to us. [Another chain:] Aḥmad ibn Sinān and Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us. Both said: Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Ḥakīm, from ʿUbaydah ibn Sufyān, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: Eating any predator with fangs is forbidden.

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Bakr ibn Khalaf narrated to us: Ibn Abī ʿAdī narrated to us, from Saʿīd, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥakam, from Maymūn ibn Mihrān, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: On the day of Khaybar, the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited eating any predator with fangs and any bird with talons.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-Mukhāriq, from Ḥibbān ibn Jazʾ, from his brother Khuzaymah ibn Jazʾ, who said: I said: Messenger of God, I have come to ask you about the creatures of the earth. What do you say about the fox? He said: Who eats fox? I said: Messenger of God, what do you say about the wolf? He said: Would anyone with goodness in him eat wolf?

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār and Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ narrated to us; they said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rajāʾ al-Makkī narrated to us, from Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from Ibn Abī ʿAmmār—namely, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—who said: I asked Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh about the hyena: Is it game? He said: Yes. I asked: May I eat it? He said: Yes. I asked: Is this something you heard from the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him)? He said: Yes.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ narrated to us, from Ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī al-Mukhāriq, from Ḥibbān ibn Jazʾ, from Khuzaymah ibn Jazʾ, who said: I asked: Messenger of God, what do you say about the hyena? He said: Who eats hyena?

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from Ḥuṣayn, from Zayd ibn Wahb, from Thābit ibn Yazīd al-Anṣārī, who said: We were with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and people caught some desert monitor lizards, roasted them, and ate them. I caught one, roasted it, then brought it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He took a palm frond and began counting on its fingers. He said: A community among the Children of Israel was transformed into creatures of the earth, and I do not know; perhaps these are they. I said: The people have roasted them and eaten them. He neither ate it nor forbade it.

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Abū Isḥāq al-Harawī Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥātim narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUlayyah narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah, from Qatādah, from Sulaymān al-Yashkurī, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not forbid the desert monitor lizard, but found it distasteful. It is food commonly eaten by shepherds, and God, Mighty and Sublime, benefits many people through it. If I had one, I would eat it. [Another chain:] Abū Salamah Yaḥyā ibn Khalaf narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us: Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Sulaymān, from Jābir, from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), with similar wording.