What is the meaning of the hadith regarding the killing of locusts?
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The questioner : In this hadith that you mentioned, and the hadith , there is a prohibition on killing them here, and permission to eat them there. It is not permissible to kill them unless we eat them. It appears that this killing is of the kind of wanton killing...
The Shaykh : Regarding what was reported between the two hadiths, the prohibition on killing a thing is accompanied by the prohibition on eating it, unless a text comes that explains the killing by permitting its consumption. In that case, the prohibition on killing is directed at the meaning of tormenting it. There is a hadith, but its chain is weak, meaning that he did not kill it for a purpose, but rather wantonly. Similarly, there are some other hadiths that prohibit the torture of animals or chickens. Torture means killing them by strangulation, meaning taking an example: he does not kill to eat, but rather wantonly.
The questioner : Its meaning is, O Shaykh, that the living animal is not to be eaten, nor is its meat to be eaten.
The Shaykh : No, it is not to be eaten.
Do not kill locusts.
لا تقتلوا الجرادEating locusts
أكل الجرادThe Shaykh : Regarding what was reported between the two hadiths, the prohibition on killing a thing is accompanied by the prohibition on eating it, unless a text comes that explains the killing by permitting its consumption. In that case, the prohibition on killing is directed at the meaning of tormenting it. There is a hadith, but its chain is weak,
No Muslim kills a sparrow wantonly but that the sparrow will come on the Day of Resurrection saying, O my Lord...
ما من مسلم يقتل عصفورا عبثا إلا جاء العصفور يوم القيامة يقول ربي ...The questioner : Its meaning is, O Shaykh, that the living animal is not to be eaten, nor is its meat to be eaten.
The Shaykh : No, it is not to be eaten.