We went on a military expedition with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and famine struck us. We camped in a land abundant with lizards, so we caught some, and cooked them in our pots. We asked the Prophet ﷺ about it, and he said, "A nation was lost, or transformed," (Yahya was uncertain) "and Allah knows best." Then he ordered us, so we overturned the pots.Waki said, "Transformed, and I fear this may be it, so we overturned them, even though we were starving."
غزونا مع رسول الله ﷺ فأصابتنا مجاعة، فنزلنا بأرض كثيرة الضباب، فاتخذنا منها، فطبخنا في قدورنا، فسألنا النبي ﷺ فقال: أمة فقدت أو مسخت -شك يحيى- والله أعلم فأمرنا فأكفأنا القدور، قال وكيع: مسخت فأخشى أن تكون هذه فأكفأناها، وإنا لجياع.
Ahmad narrated it (17759, 17757), Bazzar (Kashf Astar 1217), and Abu Yaala (931), and from him Ibn Hibban (5266), all of them through routes from Amash, from Zayd bin Wahb, from Abdul-Rahman bin Hasanah, who related it. Its chain of transmission is sahih.Haythami attributed it in Majma (4/37) to Ahmad, Tabarani in Kabir, Abu Yaala, and Bazzar, and said, "The narrators of all of them are the narrators of sahih."