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Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1943c

باب إِبَاحَةِ الضَّبِّ ‏‏

Sahih Muslim 1943cBook 34, Hadith 58

وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ سَأَلَ رَجُلٌ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَهُوَ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ عَنْ أَكْلِ الضَّبِّ فَقَالَ ‏"‏ لاَ آكُلُهُ وَلاَ أُحَرِّمُهُ ‏" ‏ ‏.‏

Ibn 'Umar reported that a person asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as he was sitting on the pulpit about the eating of the lizard, whereupon he said:

I neither eat it, nor do I prohibit it.

Read it in place: 34. The Book of Hunting, Slaughter, and what may be Eaten