Yazid bin al-Asamm reported: A newly wedded person of Madinah invited us to a wedding feast, and he served us thirteen lizards. There were those who ate it and those who abandoned it. I met Ibn 'Abbas the next day, and informed him (about this) in the presence of many persons. Some of them said that the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had observed: I neither eat it nor forbid (anyone) from eating it, nor declare it to be unlawful. Thereupon Ibn 'Abbas said: Sad it is what you say! Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) has not been sent, but (to declare in clear words) the lawful and the unlawful (things). We were once with Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as he was with Maimuna, and there were with him al-Fadl bin 'Abbas, Khalid bin Walid and some women (also) when a tray of food containing flesh was presented to him. As Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was about to eat that, Maimuna said: It is the flesh of the lizard. He withdrew his hand saying: That is the flesh which I never eat; but he said to them (those who were present there): You may eat. Al-Fadl ate out of that, so did Khalid b Walid, and the women. Maimuna (however) said: I do not eat anything but that which Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) eats.