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الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
كتاب الأطعمة
Book of Foods
بَابُ مَا جَاءَ فِي الضَّبُ
Chapter: What Has Been Reported Regarding the Dabb Lizard
Al-Fath ar-Rabbani 7293 — What Has Been Reported Regarding the Dabb
عَنْ ثَابِتِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ وَدَاعَةَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ اصْطَدْنَا ضِبَابًا وَنَحْنُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي بَعْضِ مَغَازِيهِ قَالَ فَطَبَخَ النَّاسُ وَشَوَوْا قَالَ فَأَخَذْتُ ضَبًّا فَشَوَيْتُهُ فَأَتَيْتُ بِهِ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَوَضَعَهُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ فَأَخَذَ عُودًا فَجَعَلَ يُقَلِّبُ بِهِ أَصَابِعَهُ أَوْ يَعُدُّهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّ أُمَّةً مِنْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مُسِخَتْ دَوَابَّ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَإِنِّي لَا أَدْرِي أَيَّ الدَّوَابِّ هِيَ قَالَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ شَوَوْا قَالَ فَلَمْ يَأْكُلْ مِنْهُ وَلَمْ يَنْهَهُمْ عَنْهُ
Sayyiduna Thabit bin Yazid bin Wada’ah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that we hunted dabb lizards while we were on an expedition with the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The people cooked and roasted them. Thabit says: I also hunted a dabb lizard and, after roasting it, brought it to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and placed it before him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a stick and began to turn over or count the dabb lizard’s fingers with it, and then said: A community from the Children of Israel was transformed into animals on the earth, but I do not know which animal it was. I said: O Messenger of Allah! The people have started eating it after roasting it. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) neither ate from it nor forbade eating it.
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … It is authentically established from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that the transformed (masukh) people do not have progeny. The doubt regarding the lizard (sa’ndah) was before that revelation in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was informed that the transformed people do not have progeny.
