It was narrated from Saeed bin Al-Musayyab that a woman entered upon ‘Aishah, and in her hand was an iron-footed stick. She said: “What is this?” She (‘Aishah) said: “It is for these geckos, because the Prophet of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم told us, that there was nothing that did not try to extinguish the fire for Ibrahim except for this animal, so he told us to kill it. And he forbade us to kill harmless snakes, except for the snake with two lines on its back, and the snake with a short tail, for they snatch away the eyesight and cause that which is in women’s wombs to be miscarried.”
(Hasan)