Its prohibition was mentioned by Abu Dawud on the authority of Urwa ibn al-Zubair. He said, “We approached with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, from Thaniyah until when we were at the Sidra, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, stood at the tip of the Black Horn, following it, and he faced it and brought his sight. He once said, ‘Wend it,’ and he stopped until all the people were gone.” Then he said that hunting and biting a lion is forbidden, forbidden by God, and that was before he descended on Taif and laid siege to Thaqif.