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1789. Hishām bin Zaid said: "I heard Anas saying: 'Once we provoked a rabbit at Marr Az-Zahrān. So the Companions of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ rushed after it, and I caught up to it and captured it. I brought it to Abū Talhah who slaughtered it with Marwah.'[1] He sent me with its legs – or its thighs – to the Prophet ﷺ so he could eat it.'" He (Hishām) said: "I said: 'He ate it?' He said: 'He accepted it.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] There are narrations on this topic from Jābir, 'Ammār, Muḥammad bin Ṣafwān, and they say: Muḥammad bin Ṣaifī.
This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ. This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge. They saw no harm in eating rabbit. Some of the people of knowledge disliked eating rabbit, they said that it menstruates.
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The majority of scholars including the Four A'immah consider eating the rabbit lawful, since its permissibility is proved from authentic Aḥādīth. Its proneness to menstruation is no bar to its permissibility. It is reported that Abdullāh bin Amr bin Al-'Ās, Ikrimah, and Muḥammad bin Abi Lailā ﷺ considered it as a disliked food (Tuhfat Al-Aḥwadhī, v.3, p.73 & Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim of Nawawī, v.2, p.152).
