Sayyiduna Ibn Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I took part in seven military expeditions with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). We used to eat locusts with him (peace and blessings be upon him).
(b) In the narration of Ibn Abdan: I asked Sayyiduna Ibn Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) about locusts, and Sayyiduna Ibn Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We took part in six or seven expeditions with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and we used to eat locusts with him (peace and blessings be upon him).
(c) It is reported from Abu al-Walid: seven expeditions or six.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18991
Abu Ya'fur said: I asked my companion Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) about locusts, and he said: There is no harm in it; we were with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in seven expeditions, and we used to eat locusts.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18992
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We fought six or seven expeditions with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and we used to eat locusts.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18993
It is reported from Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about locusts, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is a very great army of Allah; I neither eat it nor declare it unlawful."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18994
Abu Uthman al-Nahdi (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The greatest army of Allah on earth is the locust; I neither eat it nor declare it unlawful."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18995
Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said the same, and he said: "It is the great army of Allah."
The Shaykh said: If this is authentic, it too indicates that it is permissible, for since he did not declare it unlawful, it is lawful; he only did not eat it himself out of distaste.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18996
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Two dead things and two bloods have been made lawful for us. The two dead things are fish and locusts, and the two bloods are the liver and the spleen."
(b) Zayd bin Aslam narrates from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Two dead things have been made lawful for us."
This (latter, mawquf version) is the correct one.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18997
Sinan bin Abdullah asked Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) about locusts, and he said: We went with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to Khaybar, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was also with us. He had a basket containing locusts, which he had placed behind him; he would take locusts out of it and give them to us, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would watch us eating. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When we returned to Madinah, we bought them from them, and then we kept eating from them for a long time.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18998
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about locusts, and he said: "I would like to have a basket full of locusts that we could keep eating from."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 18999
Wahb bin Abdullah al-Ma'afiri and Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) came to Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her), the wife of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). She served them locusts fried in ghee and said: O Egyptian, eat of this; perhaps sir (small salted fish) is dearer to you than this. I said: We do indeed love sir. She said: O Egyptian, eat. One of the prophets asked Allah for the meat of a bird that would need no slaughtering, so Allah provided him with fish and locusts.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 19000
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The pure wives of the Prophet (may Allah be pleased with them) used to eat locusts and give them to one another as gifts. Yazid said: I asked Sa'id: Did you hear it from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him)? He said: Yes, I heard it.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 19001
Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), al-Miqdad bin Suwayd and Suhayb (may Allah be pleased with them) ate locusts. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If only we had a basket or two of it.
(b) Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Fish and locusts are slaughtered.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 19002
Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) would see his sons and family eating locusts, and he would not forbid them, nor would he eat them himself. Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her) said: I think he found it distasteful.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصيد والذبائح / 19003