85 - Killing the Gecko

2831 - Abu Bakr ibn Ishaq informed us, saying: Ibrahim ibn Muhammad 'Ar'arah narrated to us, saying: Mu'adh ibn Hisham narrated to us, saying: My father narrated to me, from Qatadah, from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab:

That a woman entered upon 'A'ishah while she had a staff in her hand. She said: "What is this?" She replied: "For these geckos, because the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, told us that there was nothing that would blow on the fire of Ibrahim, peace be upon him, except this creature. So he commanded us to kill it, and he forbade the killing of snakes, except the one with two white stripes and the one with a short tail, for they cause blindness and cause miscarriage in pregnant women."

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And it was also recorded by Muslim (1199): (77) from Qutaybah ibn Sa'id with this chain of transmission, and he paired him with Muhammad ibn Rumh.

It has preceded via the narration of Malik, from Nafi', under number (2828), and the numbers of its narrations are to be consulted there.

(1) In (K): "for indeed" - a variant copy.
(2) The command to kill the gecko is authentic, as is the command to kill the one with two white stripes and the one with a short tail. This chain of transmission has trustworthy narrators except Mu'adh ibn Hisham - who is al-Dastuwa'i - for he is truthful. Furthermore, Qatadah - who is Ibn Di'amah al-Sadusi, even though he heard much from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab - was considered weak by 'Ali ibn al-Madini in his narrations from Sa'id, as reported by al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in his "Tahdhib" from Isma'il al-Qadi. The hadith is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under number (3800).

In this narration of Qatadah there are two hadiths:
The first: concerning the mention of the gecko and the command to kill it.
The second: concerning the prohibition of killing snakes except the one with two white stripes...

As for the first: Qatadah was contradicted in its chain of transmission, for 'Abd al-Hamid ibn Jubayr ibn Shaybah narrated it from Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab, from Umm Sharik, and this narration is in the two Sahihs, and it will come under number (2885).

It has also been narrated from another route from 'A'ishah: Jarir ibn Hazim narrated it from Nafi', from Sa'ibah, the freed slavewoman of al-Fakih ibn al-Mughirah, who said: "I entered upon 'A'ishah and saw in her house a spear placed..." - the hadith. It was recorded from this route by Ahmad (24534), Ibn Majah (3231), and Ibn Hibban (5631). Sa'ibah, the freed slavewoman of al-Fakih, is unknown. =