(7) باب إِبَاحَةِ الضَّبِّ
Abu Sa'id reported that an Arab of the desert came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said:
I live in a low land abounding in lizards, and these are the common diet of my family, but he (the Holy Prophet) did not make any reply. We said to him: Repeat it (your problem) and so he repeated it, but he did not make any reply. (It was repeated thrice ) Then Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) called him out at the third time saying: O man of the desert, verily Allah cursed or showed wrath to a tribe of Bani Isra'il and distorted them to beasts which move on the earth. I do not know, perhaps this (lizard) may be one of them. So I do not eat it, nor do I prohibit the eating of it.
Reference: Sahih Muslim 1951 b
In-book reference: Book 34, Hadith 73
USC-MSA web (English) reference(deprecated numbering scheme): Book 21, Hadith 4800