#5017

Ibn 'Abbas reported:I do not know whether Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) prohibited (the eating of the domestic ass) due to the fact that they were the beasts of burden for the people, so he (the Holy Prophet) did not like their beasts of burden to be destroyed (as a matter of expediency), or he prohibited the use of the flesh of domestic asses (not as an expediency but as a law of the Shari'ah) on the Day of Khaibar

وحدثني احمد بن يوسف الازدي، حدثنا عمر بن حفص بن غياث، حدثنا ابي، عن عاصم، عن عامر، عن ابن عباس، قال لا ادري انما نهى عنه رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من اجل انه كان حمولة الناس فكره ان تذهب حمولتهم او حرمه في يوم خيبر لحوم الحمر الاهلية