Chapters on Hunting

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Abū Kurayb narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: When the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished the prayer, a man from the People of the Bench called out to him: Messenger of God, our land is full of desert monitor lizards. What do you think about eating them? He said: I have been told that they are a community that was transformed. He neither ordered it nor prohibited it.

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Muḥammad ibn al-Muṣaffā al-Ḥimṣī narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Ḥarb narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Zubaydī narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Abū Umāmah ibn Sahl ibn Ḥunayf, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās, from Khālid ibn al-Walīd, that a roasted desert monitor lizard was brought to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him). It was placed near him, and he reached out to eat from it. Someone present said: Messenger of God, this is desert monitor lizard meat. He withdrew his hand. Khālid asked: Messenger of God, is the desert monitor forbidden? He replied: No, but it is not found in my land, so I find myself averse to it. Khālid then reached for the lizard and ate from it while the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) watched him.

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Muḥammad ibn al-Muṣaffā narrated to us: Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: I do not declare it forbidden—meaning the desert monitor lizard.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī narrated to us; they said: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Hishām ibn Zayd, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: We passed by Marr al-Ẓahrān and startled a rabbit. The people chased it until they were exhausted. I ran after it until I caught it and brought it to Abū Ṭalḥah, who slaughtered it. He sent its hindquarters and haunch to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he accepted them.

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Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Hārūn informed us: Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind informed us, from al-Shaʿbī, from Muḥammad ibn Ṣafwān, who said: I passed by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) carrying two rabbits. I said: Messenger of God, I caught these two rabbits but found no metal blade with which to slaughter them, so I slaughtered them with a flintstone. May I eat them? He said: Eat.

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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 about the creatures of the earth. What do you say about the desert monitor lizard? He said: I do not eat it, nor do I declare it forbidden. I said: Then I eat what you have not forbidden. Why, Messenger of God? He said: A community among the communities disappeared, and I saw a creature that unsettled me. I said: Messenger of God, what do you say about the rabbit? He said: I do not eat it, nor do I declare it forbidden. I said: Then I eat what you have not forbidden. Why, Messenger of God? He said: I was told that it menstruates.

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Hishām ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us: Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us: Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym told me, from Saʿīd ibn Salamah, from the family of Ibn al-Azraq, that al-Mughīrah ibn Abī Burdah—of Banū ʿAbd al-Dār—told him that he heard Abū Hurayrah say: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Its water is pure and purifying, and its dead creatures are lawful to eat. Abū ʿAbd Allāh said: I heard that Abū ʿUbaydah al-Jawwād said: This is half of knowledge, because the world is land and sea. He gave you the ruling concerning the sea, and the land remains.

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Aḥmad ibn ʿAbdah narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Sulaym al-Ṭāʾifī narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn Umayyah narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Eat what the sea casts up or what it leaves behind when the tide recedes. Do not eat what dies in it and floats on the surface.

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Aḥmad ibn al-Azhar al-Naysābūrī narrated to us: al-Haytham ibn Jamīl narrated to us: Sharīk narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: Who would eat a crow, when the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) called it “wicked”? By God, it is not among wholesome things.

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Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us: al-Anṣārī narrated to us: al-Masʿūdī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq narrated to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, that the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The snake is wicked, the scorpion is wicked, the mouse is wicked, and the crow is wicked. Al-Qāsim was asked: Is the crow eaten? He said: Who would eat it after the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) called it wicked?

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al-Ḥusayn ibn Mahdī informed us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us: ʿUmar ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited eating cats and taking payment for them.