Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 850
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ، عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الْمُهَزِّمِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ خَرَجْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي حَجٍّ أَوْ عُمْرَةٍ فَاسْتَقْبَلَنَا رِجْلٌ مِنْ جَرَادٍ فَجَعَلْنَا نَضْرِبُهُ بِسِيَاطِنَا وَعِصِيِّنَا فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " كُلُوهُ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْ صَيْدِ الْبَحْرِ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ . لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ أَبِي الْمُهَزِّمِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ . وَأَبُو الْمُهَزِّمِ اسْمُهُ يَزِيدُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ وَقَدْ تَكَلَّمَ فِيهِ شُعْبَةُ . وَقَدْ رَخَّصَ قَوْمٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ لِلْمُحْرِمِ أَنْ يَصِيدَ الْجَرَادَ وَيَأْكُلَهُ وَرَأَى بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ صَدَقَةً إِذَا اصْطَادَهُ وَأَكَلَهُ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abu Kurayb narrated to us: Waki' narrated to us, from Hammad ibn Salamah, from Abu al-Muhazzim, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: We went out with the Messenger of Allah on Hajj or Umrah, and a swarm of locusts came toward us. We began striking them with our whips and sticks. The Prophet said, ‘Eat them, for they are game from the sea.’
Abu Isa said: This is a gharib hadith. We know it only through Abu al-Muhazzim's narration from Abu Hurayrah. Abu al-Muhazzim's name was Yazid ibn Sufyan, and Shu'bah criticized him. Some scholars permitted a person in ihram to hunt and eat locusts; others said that if he hunts and eats them, he must give charity.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The text calls locusts ‘game from the sea’; the commentary records differing rulings on hunting them while in ihram.