He said: ʿAbdullah used to kill every snake he found. Abū Lubābah—or Zayd ibn al-Khaṭṭāb—saw him chasing a snake and said: “Indeed, he has been forbidden from killing those that dwell in houses.”

5253 — Al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, from Mālik, from Nāfiʿ, from Abū Lubābah: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade killing the jinnān (house snakes) that are in houses, except for the one with two white stripes (dhū al-ṭufyatayn) and the one with a truncated tail (al-abtar), for the two of them snatch away the eyesight and cause miscarriage in women.

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It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (3297), Muslim (2233), Ibn Mājah (3535), and al-Tirmidhī (1553) via multiple chains from Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī, with this chain of transmission.

It is also in *Musnad Aḥmad* (4557) and *Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān* (5638).

Al-abtar: it is the one whose tail is cut off. Al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl added: it is blue in color; no pregnant woman looks at it without miscarrying. It is also said: al-abtar is the short-tailed snake.

His saying “dhū al-ṭufyatayn”: it is the dual form of ṭufyah, which is the leaf of the muql (palm) tree; the line on the back of the snake is likened to it. Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: it is said that dhū al-ṭufyatayn is a type of snake that has two white lines on its back.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. Abū Lubābah: he is Ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir al-Awsī. There is disagreement over his name: it is said Bashīr, and it is said Rifāʿah, and other opinions as well. Al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in *al-ʿIlal* 12/298 and 307 that the prohibition on killing jinnān is narrated by Nāfiʿ from Ibn ʿUmar from Abū Lubābah from the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—and that the killing of dhū al-ṭufyatayn and al-abtar is something Ibn ʿUmar heard directly from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. We say: this is clarified by the narration of Sālim ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar that follows.

It is also in Mālik’s *al-Muwaṭṭaʾ* 2/975, where he said: “al-ḥayyāt (snakes)” instead of “al-jinnān.”

It was also recorded with similar wording by Muslim (2233) via Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, and (2233) via ʿUmar ibn Nāfiʿ, both from Nāfiʿ, with it. In both of their narrations, it is clear that Abū Lubābah conveyed this to ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar when he intended to kill a snake near his house.

It was also recorded with similar wording by al-Bukhārī (3313) and (4017), and Muslim (2233) via multiple chains from Nāfiʿ, with it, and that Abū Lubābah also conveyed it to Ibn ʿUmar. They limited it to the prohibition on =