Reports on the hyena and the fox

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Ammar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I said to Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him): "Is the hyena eaten?" He answered in the affirmative. I said: "Is it game?" He said: "Yes." I asked: "Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He said: "Yes."

Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said that the meat of hyenas was sold in Makkah between Safa and Marwah.

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Ammar (may Allah have mercy on him) asked Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) about the hyena, and he mentioned the like of it.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The hyena is game; its compensation is a ram that has grown its two front teeth, and it may be eaten."

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Ma'qil al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about the hyena, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I do not eat it, nor do I forbid it." The narrator said: I said: Since you (peace and blessings be upon him) do not forbid it, I will eat it. The narrator said: I said: "What is your view about the spiny-tailed lizard (dabb)?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I neither eat it nor forbid it." The narrator said: Since you (peace and blessings be upon him) do not forbid it, I will eat it. He said: I said: "O Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what is your (peace and blessings be upon him) view about the rabbit?" He said: "I do not eat it, nor do I declare it unlawful." The narrator said: Since you (peace and blessings be upon him) do not declare it unlawful, I will eat it. He said: I asked: "O Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what is your (peace and blessings be upon him) view about the wolf?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Does anyone eat that?" The narrator said: I asked: "O Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), what is your (peace and blessings be upon him) view about the fox?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Does anyone eat the fox too?"
(b) Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab, Ali bin Abi Talib and Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) held that when a muhrim hunts a hyena, he must give a ram in compensation for it.
This hadith has also been narrated from Khuzaymah bin Jaz' (may Allah be pleased with him), agreeing with al-Sulami's hadith in part and differing from it in part; both chains contain weakness.

Abdullah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I asked Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) about the young of the hyena, and he said: The young of the hyena is just like the young of a sheep.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about the hyena, and he said: The young of the hyena is lawful, like a sheep. Abu Ubayd said: Among the Arabs, the young of the hyena stands in the place of a sheep.

Zayd bin Wahb said that a letter from Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) came to them while they were engaged in one of the military expeditions: "News has reached me that you eat cheese; so see what of it is lawful and what is unlawful. And you wear furs; so distinguish the properly slaughtered from the carrion."

Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about cheese, ghee and wild asses, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "What is declared lawful in the Qur'an is lawful, what Allah has declared unlawful in the Qur'an is unlawful, and what He was silent about, He has pardoned."