Abdullah bin Yazid al-Sa'di narrates: Some people of my tribe instructed me to ask Sa'id bin al-Musayyib about the sharp spearheads (sinan) which they sharpen and plant in the ground, and by morning a hyena (dabu') has been killed by it: would that count as its slaughter? The narrator says: I came and sat with Sa'id bin al-Musayyib, and with him was an elderly man whose hair and beard had turned white; he was from the people of Syria. I asked him about this matter, and he said: "Do you people eat the hyena?" I replied: "I myself have never eaten it, but some people of my tribe eat it." Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: "Eating it is not lawful at all." Then that elderly man said: "O servant of Allah, shall I not narrate to you a hadith that I heard from Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him), which he narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?" I replied: "Yes." He said: I heard Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' say: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade (eating the meat of) every snatching animal, every mujaththamah (that is, every animal or bird that is made a target and shot to death), and every predator with fangs.
The narrator says: Sa'id bin al-Musayyib said: "He has spoken the truth."
In one narration, for 'every snatching animal' the word "dhi khitfah" is reported in place of the word "nuhbah".
Ahmad recorded it, al-Bazzar in abridged form, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir. Al-Bazzar said: Its chain is hasan (good). I say: The reason for this is that he recorded it from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib from Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him), and this narrator Abdullah bin Yazid is not in its chain. Al-Tirmidhi recorded from this narration only the prohibition of the mujaththamah.