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3231. It was narrated from Sā'ibah, the freed slave woman of Fākīh bin Mughirah, that she entered upon 'Aishah and saw a spear in her house. She said: "O Mother of the Believers, what do you do with this?" She said: "We kill these house lizards with it, for the Prophet of Allāh ﷺ told us that when Ibrāhīm was thrown into the fire, there was no beast on earth that did not try to put it out, apart from the house lizard that blew on it. So the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ commanded that they should be killed." (Hasan)
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A lizard should be killed.
The lizard that had blown in the fire, which had inflamed for Ibrāhīm ﷺ, died centuries before, but it proves that this is a vicious animal.
c. A lizard is a harmful animal, and killing such a harmful animal does not require a practical harm; it is killed even it does not harm anyone like a snake and scorpion is killed even if it does not bite or sting.
