614 – On the authority of ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her), who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “Five kinds of creatures—all of them are noxious—may be killed whether one is inside the Sanctuary or outside it: the scorpion, the kite, the crow, the rat, and the vicious dog.” Agreed upon. (1)

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• Khams (five): the grammatical subject, modified by the following prepositional phrase. “All of them” is a second subject, whose predicate is “noxious”; the clause formed by this second subject and its predicate then serves as the predicate of the first subject.
• Dawābb: plural of dābbah, literally “that which moves along the ground.” The tāʾ marbūṭah intensifies the meaning. Originally the term covered everything that crawls upon the earth, but common usage has narrowed it to four-legged beasts such as horses, mules, and donkeys—a shift known as “transferred usage.” The kite and the crow are counted here as dawābb in deference to the predominant examples listed.
• “All of them are fawāsiq”: plural of fāsiq. Fusūq means disobedience or departure from obedience. These animals are called fawāsiq because of a specific deviation: their tendency to harm and to wreak damage distinguishes them from other creatures.
• Yuqtalna (they may be killed): the pronoun refers back to “five,” not to the broader sense of “all.”
• Al-ḥill: pronounced with a kasrah on the ḥāʾ; the area lying outside the boundaries of the ḥaram, where hunting and killing game are ordinarily lawful.
• Al-ḥaram: with an open ḥāʾ and rāʾ, ending with a mīm; the inviolable precinct of Mecca, meaning the territory that encircles the city on every side.