Hadith 19844

Chapter 7

باب 7

(7) باب إِبَاحَةِ الضَّبِّ

(7) Chapter: The permissibility of eating the Dabb (mastigure)
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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.

Reference: Sahih Muslim 1943 c

In-book reference: Book 34, Hadith 58

USC-MSA web (English) reference(deprecated numbering scheme): Book 21, Hadith 4785