If a Person Sees Lice in the Mosque, What Should He Do?

It is narrated from an Ansari that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If any of you sees a louse in the mosque, he should take it out by putting it in his garment.

Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with both of them) was asked: If a person sees a louse in the mosque, what should he do? He replied: He should bury it in the pebbles. The narrator says: I have seen Abu Zubyan doing this.

7692 - He said: (And I saw) (1) Abu Zubyan do that.

Hazrat Rabi’ bin Khuthaym narrates that Hazrat Abdullah buried a louse in the mosque and then recited this verse: “Have We not made the earth sufficient for the living and the dead?”

Hazrat Musayyib bin Rafi narrates from a man that I saw Hazrat Abu Umamah kill a louse in the mosque and bury it there.

Hazrat Abu Muslim Thalabi says that I saw Hazrat Abu Umamah catching lice in the mosque and burying them in the ground.

Hazrat Abu Khulda says that I saw Hazrat Abu Al-Aliyah bury a louse in the mosque and then recite this verse: "Have We not made the earth sufficient for the living and the dead?"

Hazrat Saeed bin Musayyib says that bury lice in the mosque, because even worse things like spit are also buried in the mosque.

Hazrat Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says that I saw Ibn Ma'qil burying lice in the mosque. Hazrat Sufyan says that my grandmother was a slave woman (umm walad) of Hazrat Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he used to keep away from her.

7699 - And my grandmother was a concubine of Al-Hasan ibn Ali, and he used to practice coitus interruptus with her.

Hazrat Ubaid bin Umair narrates that Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) was performing prayer and there was some insect or the like on him. I caught it and placed it in a corner of the mosque, and he did not consider my action to be wrong.

Ibrahim says that when you catch a louse in the mosque, then bury it in the mosque itself.

Hazrat Yusuf bin Mahak says that I saw Ibn Umair catch a louse from the clothes of Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and bury it in the mosque.

Hazrat Abu Ghalib says that I saw Hazrat Abu Umamah picking lice and throwing them in the mosque. I said to him, O Abu Umamah! Why are you throwing lice in the mosque? He replied that Allah Almighty says: Have We not made the earth sufficient for the living and the dead?