Abu Qatada told that he saw a wild ass and killed it. The Prophet (ﷺ) asked whether they had any of its flesh and when he replied that they had a leg he took it and ate it.
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
Anas said: We started a hare at Marr az-Zahran1 and when I caught it and brought it to Abu Talha he cut its throat and sent its haunch and two hindlegs to God’s messenger, and he accepted it.
1. A wadi near Mecca.
(Bukha…
Ibn Abbas said he was told by Khalid b. al-Walid that he went with God’s messenger to visit Maimuna who was both his and Ibn 'Abbas's maternal aunt and found that she had a roasted lizard. She offered the lizard to God's…
Jabir said: 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 we had never…
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."
Bukhari transm…
وَعَن ميمونةَ أَنَّ فَأْرَةً وَقَعَتْ فِي سَمْنٍ فَمَاتَتْ فَسُئِلَ رَسُول الله صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم فَقَالَ: «ألقوها وَمَا حولهَا وكلوه» . رَوَاهُ البُخَارِيّ
Maimuna said that when a mouse fell into some clarified butter and died God's messenger was asked about it and replied, "Throw it and what is round it away and eat what is left."
Bukhari transmitted it.
Ibn ‘Umar told of hearing the Prophet (ﷺ) say, "Kill snakes, kill those which have two streaks and those with small tails, for they obliterate the eyesight and cause miscarriage." ‘Abdallah [i.e. Ibn Umar] said that whil…
Abus Sa’ib said: We went in to visit Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, and while we were sitting we heard a movement under his couch. When we had looked and found a snake in it I jumped up to kill it, but Abu Sa'id who was engaged in…
Umm Sharik told that God’s messenger ordered geckos to be killed, saying the gecko blew on Abraham.1
1. Al-Qur’an 21:68 speaks of Abraham being put into a fire. In this tradition it is said that the gecko blew on the fir…
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 at the third."
M…
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 community which glori…