It was narrated that Thabit bin Yazid Al-Ansari said: We were with the Prophet on a journey. We stopped to camp and the people caught some mastigures. I took a mastigure and grilled it, and brought it to the Prophet He took a palm stalk, and started counting his fingers with it, and said: 'A nation from among the children of Israel was turned into beats of the4 Earth, and I do not know what kind of animals they were, I said: 'O Messenger of Allah, the people ha e eaten some of them.' He did not tell them to eat it, and he did not forbid them from eating it.