The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade eating every predatory animal with fangs and every bird with talons.
نهى رسول الله ﷺ عن كل ذي ناب من السباع، وعن كل ذي مخلب من الطير.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Hunting and Slaughtered Animals (1934: 16) from Ubaydullah bin Muaz Anbari, who said, my father narrated to us, Shuba narrated to us, from Hakam (that is, Ibn Utayba), from Maymun bin Mihran, from Ibn Abbas, who said what has already been mentioned.Note, Abu Dawud (3805), Ibn Majah (3234), Nasai (4348), and Ahmad (3141) all narrated it through various routes from Saeed bin Abu Aruba, from Ali bin Hakam, from Maymun bin Mihran, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, who said, "On the day of Khaybar, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade eating any fanged predator among beasts, and any bird with talons."So they added a man in the chain between Maymun bin Mihran and Ibn Abbas, namely Saeed bin Jubayr, just as they added in the wording the time of the prohibition, which was the day of Khaybar. This is what is called an addition within otherwise connected chains, as Khatib said. See Nukat Ziraf (5/253).The predatory beasts of prey are the lion, the leopard, the cheetah, the wolf, and the dog. The naab (fang), plural anyaab, refers to what lies next to the incisors in a human being. The majority of scholars, namely Malik, Abu Hanifa, Shafii, and Ahmad, held to the apparent meaning of this hadith, which is prohibition. In the hadith of Abu Hurairah it is stated explicitly, its consumption is forbidden. Some scholars of Kufa held to the view of mere dislike, and this is the position of al-Mudawwana.The reason for this difference is that these hadiths appear to conflict with the words of Allah Most High, "Say, I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden for one who eats it, except carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine, for indeed it is impure, or what is offered in sin, dedicated to other than Allah. But whoever is compelled by necessity, neither desiring nor exceeding the limit, then indeed your Lord is forgiving and merciful" [Anam 6:145].According to this verse, prohibition is confined to four things only, carrion, poured forth blood, the flesh of swine, and what is dedicated to other than Allah. But the majority said, this restriction is overturned by the statement of the Prophet ﷺ, "Every fanged predator among beasts, and every bird with talons," and likewise by the Prophet's ﷺ prohibition of domestic donkeys and mules. This is because what is established through the sunnah carries the same weight as what is established through the Quran, in accordance with the words of the Prophet ﷺ, "Indeed, I have been given the Quran, and something equal to it besides it," meaning the sunnah.