Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad...

Al-Husayn Bin Muhammad, from Moala Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al Hamdany, from Sama’at Bin Mihran, from Al Kalby Al Nasaba who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah -asws about the catfish, so he -asws said: ‘Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic Metamorphosed a group from the Children of Israel, so whatever of them which the ocean seized, so it is the catfish, and the glyptothorax (mountain catfish), and the sea horse, and what is besides that; and what the land seized from them, so it is the monkeys, and the pigs, and the (short-haired) rabbit, and the lizard, and what is besides that’.

[13] قال: فقلت فقول الله تعالى (ولقد علمتم الذين اعتدوا منكم في السبت فقلنا لهم كونوا قردة خاسئين) قال: ان اولئك مسخوا ثلاثة ايام ثم ماتوا ولم يتناسلوا، وان القردة اليوم مثل أولئك، وكذلك الخنازير وساير المسوخ، ما وجد منها اليوم من شئ فهو مثله لا يحل ان يؤكل لحمه.

He (the narrator) said, ‘So I said, ‘(What about) The words of Allah -azwj the High [2:65] And you have known those among you who exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, so We Said to them: Become apes, despised ?’ They were metamorphosed for three days, then died, and did not produce offspring, and that the monkeys today are similar to those ones, and such is the case of the pigs and the rest of the metamorphosed ones. Nothing can be found from these.

Since they are similar to it, it is not Permissible to eat their flesh’. ثم قال ” ع “: لعن الله الغلاة والمفوضة فانهم صغروا عصيان الله وكفروا به وأشركوا وضلواو أضلوا قرار من إقامة الفرايض واداء الحقوق.

Then he -asws said: ‘May Allah -azwj Curse the exaggerators ( Ghulaat ) and the ‘ Mufawwiza ’ (Believers in delegation of Authority), for they have belittled the disobedience to Allah -azwj and have disbelieved in it, and they have associated, and strayed and have strayed others from establishing the Obligations and fulfilment of the rights’ (An extract).