Sahih Muslim
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Chapter 38 · The Book of Hunting , Slaughter and what may be Eatenحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَقِيلٍ الدَّوْرَقِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو نَضْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ، أَنَّ أَعْرَابِيًّا أَتَى رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَقَالَ: إِنِّي فِي غَائِطٍ مَضَبَّةٍ، وَإِنَّهُ عَامَّةُ طَعَامِ أَهْلِي؟ قَالَ: فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ، فَقُلْنَا: عَاوِدْهُ، فَعَاوَدَهُ، فَلَمْ يُجِبْهُ ثَلَاثًا، ثُمَّ نَادَاهُ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي الثَّالِثَةِ، فَقَالَ: «يَا أَعْرَابِيُّ، إِنَّ اللهَ لَعَنَ - أَوْ غَضِبَ - عَلَى سِبْطٍ مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ فَمَسَخَهُمْ دَوَابَّ، يَدِبُّونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ، فَلَا أَدْرِي، لَعَلَّ هَذَا مِنْهَا، فَلَسْتُ آكُلُهَا، وَلَا أَنْهَى عَنْهَا».
Translation
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The Arabic text and the translations come from our previous collection: English from hadithapi.com, German and Turkish machine-translated (Gemini) and unreviewed. A new translation from the Arabic with the chain of narration will follow.
An Arab of the desert came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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 ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) 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.