Chapters on Hunting

“Who eats crows? The MessengerofAllah (ﷺ) called them vermin, By Allah, they are not from amongthegood and permissible things.”

“I said: ‘O MessengerofAllah, I have come to ask you about the vermin of the earth. Whatdoyou say about foxes?’ He said: ‘Who eats foxes?’ I said: ‘OMessenger of Allah, what do you say about wolves?’ He said: ‘Doesanyone in whom there is anything good eat wolves?’”

“A man from amongAhlus-Suffah called the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he had finishedthe prayer, saying: ‘O Messenger of Allah! Our land is a landinfestedwith mastigures. What do you think of (eating) mastigures?’He said:‘I have heard that a nation was transformed.’ He did nottell us toeat them, and he did not forbid that.”

“We were withtheProphet (ﷺ) and the people caught a mastigure. They grilled itandate from it. Then I caught a mastigure so I grilled it and broughtitto the Prophet (ﷺ). He took a palm stalk and started counting hisfinger with it, and said: ‘A nation from among the Children ofIsraelwas turned into beasts of the earth, and I do not know if thisisthey.’ I said: ‘The people have grilled them and eaten them.’He didnot eat it and he did not forbid it.”

“Ido not forbid it,” meaning mastigure.

“Snakes are vermin, scorpions are vermin, mice are vermin and crowsare vermin.”

“Iasked Jabir bin ‘Abdullah about hyenas: ‘Are they game (that canbehunted)?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ I said: ‘Can I eat them?’ Hesaid: ‘Yes.’ Isaid: ‘Is this something that you heard from theMessenger of Allah(ﷺ)?’ He said: ‘Yes.’”

“I said: ‘O MessengerofAllah (ﷺ), what do you say about hyenas?’ He said: ‘Who eatshyenas?’”

Another chain reports a similar hadith.

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)said:‘The water of the sea is a means of purification and its deadmeatis permissible.’”

“Whatever the sea throws out or is left behind when thetideebbs, eat it, but whatever rises to its surface, do not eat it.’”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbadeeating cats and he forbade their price.”