Azami 7343

Imam Ahmad narrated it (20209, 20240), and Bazzar (Kashf Astar 1216), and Tabarani in al-Kabir (6788, 6790), all of them through the route of Abu Awana, who said, "Abdul-Malik bin Umayr narrated to us, from Husayn, from Samura bin Jundab," and he related it.There is disagreement regarding the identification of this Husayn. In the first instance in Ahmad, he is identified by his tribe without naming his father, where it says, "a man from Banu Fazara," while in the second instance he is identified by his father without his tribe. Likewise in Tabarani's first instance it says, "Husayn bin Qabisa." But in Bazzar, and in Tabarani's second instance, it says, "Husayn bin Abu Hurr." This latter figure is one from whom Abdul-Malik bin Umayr transmits, and he is trustworthy, having been deemed trustworthy by Abu Hatim and others. However, in the sources of his biography he is identified as "Tamimi Anbari," and his father's name is Malik bin Khashkhash.The closer identification is that he is Husayn bin Qabisa. His biography states that he was a Fazari from the people of Kufa. This man ranks below the previous one in fame and reliability, in fact no one deemed him trustworthy except Ajli, and Ibn Hibban mentioned him in al-Thiqat. Three narrators transmitted from him, so his hadith is hasan as long as he does not bring something objectionable. Al-Hafiz deemed him trustworthy in al-Taqrib and placed him in the second tier, which comprises the senior successors.The upshot is that the disagreement mentioned does not affect the ruling, since it wavers only between "trustworthy" and "truthful," so the chain is at the very least hasan.As for his statement, "it was transformed," the Prophet ﷺ said that at the outset, and so he refrained from eating it, and likewise his companions did. Then the Prophet ﷺ was informed that a transformed creature leaves no offspring, as narrated by Muslim in the Book of Divine Decree (2663:33) from the hadith of Ibn Masud, in which it states, a man said, "O Messenger of Allah, are monkeys and pigs among those that were transformed?" The Prophet ﷺ replied, "Allah never destroyed a people, or punished a people, and then gave them offspring. Monkeys and pigs existed before that."So he permitted eating it, but he ﷺ did not eat it himself because it was not among the food of his own people, and one who is not accustomed to eating something does not find it appetizing. And here are the hadiths establishing the permissibility of eating dabb lizard and that it is not forbidden.