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Sahih Muslim 1949صحيح مسلم 1949
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَعَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، قَالاَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ، عَنِ ابْنِ، جُرَيْجٍ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، يَقُولُ أُتِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِضَبٍّ فَأَبَى أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْهُ وَقَالَ " لاَ أَدْرِي لَعَلَّهُ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ الَّتِي مُسِخَتْ " .
Abu Zubair reported that he heard Jabir b. 'Abdullah saying that there was presented to Allah's Messenger (the flesh) of the lizard, but he refused to eat that, saying: I do not know; perhaps it (lizard) might (be one of those natives of) the distant past whose (forms) had beer, distorted.
Grading
Sahih (authentic by the consensus of hadith scholars)
Chain of narrators
إسحاق بن إبراهيم بن عباد ← عبد الرزاق بن همام ← عبد الملك بن عبد العزيز ← محمد بن مسلم بن تدرس ← جابر بن عبد الله
Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Abbad → Abd al-Razzaq ibn Hammam → Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz → Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Tadrus → Jabir