Mishkat al-Masabih #3953
Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered
Umm Sharik told that God’s messenger ordered geckos to be killed, saying the gecko blew on Abraham.1
1. Al-Qur’an 21:68 speaks of Abraham being put into a fire. In this tradition it is said that the gecko blew on the fire to stir it up.
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
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This hadith is #3953 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.