Fath al-Rabbani

'Amr bin Dinar says: I said to Abu Sha'tha that people say the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade eating the meat of domestic donkeys. He said: O 'Amr! The ocean of knowledge, Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas, rejects this, and he recited this verse: {قُلْ لَا أَجِدُ فِیمَا أُوحِیَ إِلَیَّ مُحَرَّمًا عَلٰی طَاعِمٍ یَطْعَمُہُ} … Say, "I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden to be eaten by one who wishes to eat it, unless it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine." The ocean of knowledge has rejected that donkey meat is forbidden, and this is also supported by Hakam bin 'Amr Ghifari, that the son of Abbas, the ocean of knowledge, did not declare donkey meat forbidden.