I am amazed at anyone who eats the crow, when the Prophet ﷺ permitted killing it and called it a corrupt creature. By Allah, it is not among the wholesome foods.
إني لأعجب ممن يأكل الغراب، وقد أذن النبي ﷺ في قتله، وسماه فاسقا، والله ما هو من الطيبات.
Bazzar narrated it in Kashf Astar (1214), and Bayhaqi (9/317), both through Ismail bin Abu Uways, who said, "My father narrated to me," from Yahya bin Saeed, from Amra bint Abdul-Rahman, and from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it.Its chain is hasan because of Ismail bin Abu Uways and his father, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Yahya is Ibn Saeed Ansari. Haythami said in Majma (404), "Bazzar narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy."Note. Sharik the judge narrated it from Hisham bin Urwa, from his father, from Ibn Umar, and mentioned something similar. Ibn Majah narrated it (3248), and Bayhaqi (9/317), both through Haytham bin Jameel, who said, "Sharik narrated to us," with this chain. Sharik is Ibn Abdullah Nakhai the judge, who alone narrated this chain. He was poor in memory, so his narration cannot be relied upon when he narrates alone, let alone when he contradicts a trustworthy narrator, namely Yahya Ansari, as mentioned before. As for Busiri, he said in Zawaid bin Majah (3/68), "Its chain is sahih."In Ayesha, mother of the believers', statement, "I am astonished at those who eat crows," and then her reasoning that this was because the Prophet ﷺ had permitted killing it, there is explicit evidence that she held the view that it is forbidden to eat whatever one is commanded to kill. This is a view held by scholars, and likewise the ruling among them regarding whatever one is forbidden to kill.Hafiz Bayhaqi says in Sunan al-Kubra (9/318), "Whatever one is commanded to kill both outside the sanctuary and within it, its eating is forbidden, for if it were lawful, its killing would not have been commanded within the sanctuary nor during ihram, and Allah has forbidden killing game during ihram. And whatever one is forbidden to kill, its eating is forbidden, for if it were lawful, one would have been commanded to slaughter it, and its killing would not have been forbidden, just as the killing of what is lawful to slaughter and eat has not been forbidden. And Allah knows best."Khattabi said in Maalim Sunan (8/113), "As for the hoopoe and the shrike, the prohibition of killing them indicates the forbidding of their flesh, for when an animal's killing is forbidden, and this is neither due to its sanctity nor due to any harm in it, then that is because its flesh is forbidden to eat."