Abu Yafur said: I heard Ibn Abi Awfa say when I asked him about (eating) locusts: I went on six or seven expeditions along with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and we ate them (locusts) along with him.

Narrated Salman al-Farsi: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was asked about (eating) locusts. He replied: They are the most numerous of Allah's hosts. I neither eat them nor declare them unlawful.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Salman through a different chain of narrators. This version goes: Salman said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was asked about locusts. He replied in a similar way (as mentioned above) saying: The most numerous of Allah’s host. The narrator Ali said: His name is Fa’id, that is the name of al-Awwam. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been transmitted by Hammad bin Salamah, from Abu al-Awwam from Abu uthman, from the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم . He did not mention salman (i. e., the companions).