{
 "id": "passage/abudawud-5267",
 "class": "passage",
 "slug": "abudawud-5267",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أبو داود 5267 — نهى عن قتل أربع من الدواب",
  "en": "Abu Dawud 5267 — He forbade killing four creatures",
  "ur": "ابو داود 5267 — چار جاندروں کا قتل منع کیا"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "في كتاب الأدب؛ عن ابن عباس عن الزهري: نهى النبي عن قتل أربع من الدواب: النملة والنحلة والهدهد والصرد — حرمة قتل المصلحين من الصغار.",
  "en": "In the Book of General Behaviour, from Ibn Abbas via al-Zuhri: the Prophet forbade killing four creatures — the ant, the bee, the hoopoe and the shrike — the immunity of the beneficial small ones.",
  "ur": "کتاب ادب میں ابن عباس سے زہری کی سند سے: نبی نے چار جاندروں کے قتل سے منع فرمایا — چیونٹی، مکھی، ہدہد اور صرد — چھوٹے مفید مخلوقوں کی حرمت۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [
  "nature-animal-hadith"
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "unit": "hadith",
  "work": "work/sunan-abi-dawud",
  "ref": "5267",
  "text": "إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ نَهَى عَنْ قَتْلِ أَرْبَعٍ مِنَ الدَّوَابِّ: النَّمْلَةُ، وَالنَّحْلَةُ، وَالْهُدْهُدُ، وَالصُّرَدُ",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Hadith 5267 as on sunnah.com (canonical numbering), matn excerpt",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)",
   "run": "nature-browser-5"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/sunan-abi-dawud",
   "source/hadith-api-fawazahmed0"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); matn excerpt checked against sunnah.com"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "concept/ant",
   "type": "mentions",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/bee",
   "type": "mentions",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/hoopoe",
   "type": "mentions",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/shrike",
   "type": "mentions",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/sunan-abi-dawud"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "passage/abudawud-5265",
  "passage/abudawud-5266",
  "passage/abudawud-5268",
  "passage/bukhari-3019",
  "passage/bukhari-3319",
  "passage/bukhari-5684",
  "passage/ibnmajah-3225",
  "passage/muslim-2241"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}