Ayesha reported,
The Prophet ﷺ said, "The frog used to put out the fire from Ibrahim, while the gecko used to blow on it. So he forbade killing the former and commanded killing the latter."
Azami 8372
Sahihعن عائشة
أن النبي ﷺ قال: كانت الضفدع تطفئ النار عن إبراهيم، وكان الوزغ ينفخ فيه، فنهى عن قتل هذا وأمر بقتل هذا.
was thrown into the fire and the gecko was blowing on it was thrown into the fire and the gecko was blowing on itAbdul-Razzaq (8392) narrated it from Mamar, from Zuhri, from Urwa, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it. Its chain is sahih.Ayesha had a spear with which she killed geckos. Abdul-Razzaq (8400) narrated it from Asim bin Ubaydullah bin Asim, from Qasim bin Muhammad, who mentioned it, but Asim bin Ubaydullah is daif.Ibn Abu Shayba (20258) narrated it, and through his route Ibn Majah (3231) and Ahmad (24534), all through routes from Jareer bin Hazim, from Nafi, from Saiba, the freedwoman of Fakih bin Mughira, that she entered upon Ayesha and saw a spear placed in her house. She said, "O Mother of the Believers, what do you do with this?" She said, "We kill these geckos with it, for the Prophet ﷺ informed us that when Ibrahim, the close friend of Allah, was thrown into the fire, there was no creature on earth except that it worked to put out the fire from him, except the gecko, for it kept blowing on the fire. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that it be killed."All the narrators in this chain are trustworthy except Saiba, the freedwoman of Fakih, who narrates from Ayesha, for no one declared her trustworthy except Ibn Hibban, and no one narrated from her except Nafi. And Allah knows best.This narration is strengthened by what Nasai (2831) narrated from Abu Bakr bin Ishaq, who said, Ibrahim bin Muhammad bin Arara narrated to us, who said, Muaz bin Hisham narrated to us, who said, my father narrated to me, from Qatada, from Saeed bin Musayab, that a woman entered upon Ayesha with a staff in her hand. She said, "What is this?" She said, "This is for the gecko, for the Prophet of Allah ﷺ told us that there was nothing except that it worked to put out the fire on Ibrahim except this creature, so he ordered us to kill it. He forbade the killing of snakes except the one with two stripes and the short-tailed one, for these two blind the eyesight and cause miscarriages."This chain is sahih, its narrators are trustworthy, and the unnamed woman may well be Saiba, the freedwoman of Fakih, mentioned in the previous narration.