Narrated Ghalib ibn Abjar: We faced a famine, and I had nothing from my property which I could feed my family ex except a few asses, and the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbade the flesh of domestic asses. So I came to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and said: Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم, we are suffering from famine, and I have no property which I feed my family except some fat asses, and you have forbidden the flesh of domestic asses. He said: Feed your family on the fat asses of yours, for I forbade them on account of the animal which feeds on the filth of the town, that is, the animal which feeds on filth. Abu Dawud said: This Abdur-Rahman is Ibn Maqil. Abu Dawud said: Suh'bah transmitted this tradition from Ubaid Abi al-Hasan, from Abdur-Rahman bin Maq'il, fromAbdur-Rahman bin Bishr, from some people of Muzainah stating that Abjar, the chief of Muzainah, or Ibn Abjar asked the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم.
Read More..Muhammed bin Sulaiman narrated from Abu Nuaim, from Mis’ar, from Ibn Ubaid, from Ibn Maqil, from two men of Muzainah, one from the other, one of them is Abdullah bin Amr bin ‘Uwaim, and the other is Ghalib bin al-Abjar. Mis’ar said: I think it was Ghalib who had come to the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم with tradition.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As: On the day of Khaybar the Messenger of Allah (may pease be upon him) forbade (eating) the flesh of domestic asses, and the animal which feeds on filth: riding it and eating its flesh.
Read More..Abu Yafur said: I heard Ibn Abi Awfa say when I asked him about (eating) locusts: I went on six or seven expeditions along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and we ate them (locusts) along with him.
Read More..Narrated Salman al-Farsi: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was asked about (eating) locusts. He replied: They are the most numerous of Allah's hosts. I neither eat them nor declare them unlawful.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Salman through a different chain of narrators. This version goes: Salman said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was asked about locusts. He replied in a similar way (as mentioned above) saying: The most numerous of Allah’s host. The narrator Ali said: His name is Fa’id, that is the name of al-Awwam. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Hammad bin Salamah, from Abu al-Awwam from Abu uthman, from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. He did not mention salman (i. e., the companions).
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