"He forbade eating the lizard." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2/143), al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Fasawī in "al-Tārīkh" (2/318), al-Ṭabarī in "Tahdhīb al-Āthār" (1/191/311), al-Bayhaqī (9/326), and Ibn ʿAsākir (9/486/1) from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Ḍamḍam ibn Zurʿah, from Shurayḥ ibn ʿUbayd, from Abū Rāshid al-Ḥabranī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shibl as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Al-Ṭabarī said: "It is not established," and al-Bayhaqī explained this by saying: "Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh is the sole narrator, and he is not a reliable authority. What has been transmitted regarding its permissibility is more authentic than this." This refers to the ḥadīth of Ibn ʿUmar and Ibn ʿAbbās in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs" and others concerning the story of Khālid ibn al-Walīd and his eating of the lizard. And his abstention (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) from it and his saying: "Eat, for it is not forbidden, and there is no harm in it, but it is not from the food of my people." It was narrated by the two Shaykhs and others, and it is extracted in "Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl" (2498). There is no doubt that this is more authentic than the ḥadīth of the chapter, but that does not necessarily weaken it if there is no defect in it other than Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, because he himself is trustworthy. They weakened him in his narrations from non-Shāmīs and considered him reliable in his narrations from them, and all the narrators of this ḥadīth are Shāmīs. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "He is truthful in his narrations from the people of his country, but mixes up in others." This distinction was made by the great imams of ḥadīth like Aḥmad, al-Bukhārī, Ibn Maʿīn, Yaʿqūb ibn Shaybah, Ibn ʿAdī, and others, and they are the basis for what al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said about him. And something similar is found in "al-Mughnī" by al-Dhahabī