Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Mishkat al-Masabih

Zaid b. Khalid said that God’s messenger prohibited reviling a cock, saying that it is making the caH to prayer. It is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna.

Mishkat al-Masabih

‘Abd ar-Rahman b. Shibl said the Prophet forbade eating the flesh of lizards. Abu Dawud transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, "If anyone kills a gecko with the first blow a hundred good deeds will be recorded for him, less if he kills it at the second and less still if he kills it...

Mishkat al-Masabih

He reported God’s messenger as saying that when a prophet was stung by an ant he ordered a colony of ants to be burned, and God most high revealed to him, "Because an ant stung you you have burned a...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Abu Huraira reported God’s messenger as saying, "When a mouse falls into clarified butter which, is solid throw the mouse and what is around it away; but if it is in a liquid state do not go near it." Ahmad...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Safina told that he and God's messenger ate the flesh of a bustard. Abu Dawud transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Ibn ‘Umar told that God's messenger prohibited eating the animal which feeds on filth or drinking its milk. Trimidhi transmitted it. In Abu Dawud’s version he said that he forbade riding the animal which feeds on filth.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Ibn Abu Aufa told that they went on seven expeditions along with God's messenger and ate locusts along with him. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Mishkat al-Masabih

I was on the expedition when the army had to beat leaves off trees for food and Abu ‘Ubaida was placed in charge. We suffered severe hunger, and then the sea cast up a dead fish the like of which...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Abu Huraira reported God’s messsenger as saying, "When a fly alights in anyone’s vessel he should plunge it all in and then throw it away, for in one of its wings there is a cure and in the other disease."...