Muhammad ibn Hatim narrated to me, Bahz narrated to us, Abu ‘Aqil al-Dawraqi narrated to us, Abu Nadrah narrated to us, from Abu Sa‘id, that a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, “I am in a land abounding in mastigures (large lizards), and they are the main food of my family.” He said: He did not answer him. So we said, “Ask him again.” He asked him again, and he did not answer him, three times. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, called out to him on the third time and said, “O Bedouin, verily Allah has cursed, or became angry with, a tribe of the Children of Israel, and transformed them into beasts that crawl upon the earth. I do not know—perhaps this is one of them. So I do not eat it, nor do I forbid it.”