4318 - Isma'il ibn Mas'ud informed us, saying: Khalid narrated to us, saying: Shu'bah narrated to us, from Abu Bishr, from Sa'id ibn Jubayr, from Ibn 'Abbas, who said:

My aunt sent as a gift to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, some dried cottage cheese (aqit), clarified butter (samn), and some lizards (dabb). He ate from the dried cottage cheese and the clarified butter, but left the lizards, finding them repulsive. Yet they were eaten at the table of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him — and had they been forbidden, they would not have been eaten at the table of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.

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Also recorded by Ahmad (16812) and (26814), and Muslim (1946): (45), via the route of Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim, with these two chains of transmission.

It was also recorded in a similar form by Ahmad (3007) via the route of Abu Ishaq al-Shaybani, and (3219) via the route of Ja'far ibn Burqan, both from Yazid ibn al-Asamm, from Ibn 'Abbas.

It has already preceded in the previous hadith.

(1) In (M): "the clarified butter and the dried cottage cheese."
(2) After this in (R), (M), and (H): "and he did not order that they be eaten." This will come in the following narration.
(3) Its chain of transmission is authentic. Khalid is Ibn al-Harith al-Hujaymi, and Abu Bishr is Ja'far ibn Iyas Abu Wahshiyyah. It is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubra" under numbers (4811) and (6667).

Also recorded by Ahmad (2299), (2959), (3163), and (3246), al-Bukhari (2575) and (5402), Muslim (1947), Abu Dawud (3793), and Ibn Hibban (5221), via multiple routes from Shu'bah, with this chain of transmission.

Also recorded by Ahmad (3040), al-Bukhari (5389) and (7358), and Ibn Hibban (5223), via the route of Abu 'Awanah, from Abu Bishr, with it.

It will follow in the hadith after this one.

And consider the two preceding hadiths.

Al-Sindi said: His statement "finding them repulsive" means: natural aversion, because he, peace and blessings be upon him, mentioned the reason for the aversion: "It was not found in the land of my people." And Allah knows best.