“O Mother of the Believers, what do you do with this?” She said: “We kill these house lizards with it, for the Prophet of Allah ﷺ told us that when Ibrahim was thrown into the fire, there was no beast on earth that did not try to put it out, apart from the house lizard that blew on it. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded that they should be killed.” (Using translation from Ibn Mājah 3231)   

أَنَّهَا دَخَلَتْ عَلَى عَائِشَةَ فَرَأَتْ فِي بَيْتِهَا رُمْحًا مَوْضُوعًا فَقَالَتْ يَا أُمَّ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ مَا تَصْنَعِينَ بِهَذَا الرُّمْحِ؟ قَالَتْ نَقْتُلُ بِهِ الْأَوْزَاغَ فَإِنَّ نَبِيَّ اللهِ ﷺ أَخْبَرَنَا أَنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام حِينَ أُلْقِيَ فِي النَّارِ لَمْ تَكُنْ دَابَّةٌ إِلَّا تُطْفِئُ النَّارَ عَنْهُ غَيْرُ الْوَزَغِ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ يَنْفُخُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَمَرَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاة وَالسَّلَامُ بِقَتْلِهِ