Hunting, Slaughtering

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Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us: Zakariyyāʾ narrated to us, from ʿĀmir, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim (may God be pleased with him), who said: “I asked the Prophet ﷺ about game struck by a miʿraḍ. He said: ‘Whatever it strikes with its sharp edge, eat it; whatever it strikes with its broad side is a bluntly killed animal.’ I asked him about game caught by a dog, and he said: ‘Whatever it holds for you, eat; for the dog’s catch is slaughter. If you find another dog—or other dogs—with your dog, and you fear that it caught the game along with it and killed it, do not eat it, for you invoked God’s name over your dog and did not invoke it over the other.’”

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Sulaymān ibn Ḥarb narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar, from al-Shaʿbī, who said: I heard ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim (may God be pleased with him) say: “I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ about the miʿraḍ. He said: ‘If you strike with its sharp edge, eat; but if it strikes with its broad side and kills, it is a bluntly killed animal, so do not eat.’ I said, ‘I release my dog.’ He said: ‘If you release your dog and invoke God’s name, eat.’ I said, ‘What if it eats from the game?’ He said: ‘Do not eat, for it did not hold it for you; it held it for itself.’ I said, ‘I release my dog and find another dog with it.’ He said: ‘Do not eat, for you invoked God’s name over your dog, not over the other.’”

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Qabīṣah narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Manṣūr, from Ibrāhīm, from Hammām ibn al-Ḥārith, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim (may God be pleased with him), who said: “I said, ‘Messenger of God, we release trained dogs.’ He said: ‘Eat what they hold for you.’ I said, ‘Even if they kill it?’ He said: ‘Even if they kill it.’ I said, ‘We also shoot with the miʿraḍ.’ He said: ‘Eat what it pierces; whatever it strikes with its broad side, do not eat.’”

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd narrated to us: Ḥaywah narrated to us, saying: Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Dimashqī informed me, from Abū Idrīs, from Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī, who said: “I said, ‘Prophet of God, we are in a land inhabited by the People of the Book. May we eat from their vessels? We are also in a land of game. I hunt with my bow, with my untrained dog, and with my trained dog. What is lawful for me?’ He said: ‘As for what you mentioned about the People of the Book: if you find other vessels, do not eat from theirs; but if you find none, wash them and eat from them. Whatever you hunt with your bow, having invoked God’s name, eat. Whatever you hunt with your trained dog, having invoked God’s name, eat. Whatever you hunt with your untrained dog, if you reach it while it is still fit for slaughter, eat.’”

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Yūsuf ibn Rāshid narrated to us: Wakīʿ and Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us—the wording is Yazīd’s—from Kahmas ibn al-Ḥasan, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal, that he saw a man flicking small pebbles with his fingers. He said to him: “Do not flick pebbles. The Messenger of God ﷺ forbade pebble-flicking”—or he said, “disliked pebble-flicking”—“and said: ‘It neither catches game nor injures an enemy, but it may break a tooth or put out an eye.’”

Then he saw him flicking pebbles again, and said to him: “I tell you that the Messenger of God ﷺ forbade pebble-flicking”—or “disliked pebble-flicking”—“and you are still doing it? I will not speak to you for such-and-such.”

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim narrated to us: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār narrated to us, saying: I heard Ibn ʿUmar (may God be pleased with them both) narrate from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “Whoever keeps a dog that is neither a livestock dog nor a hunting dog will have two qīrāṭs deducted from his deeds every day.”

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Al-Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us: Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī Sufyān informed us, saying: I heard Sālim say: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar say: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say: “Whoever keeps a dog, except a dog trained for hunting or a livestock dog, will have two qīrāṭs deducted from his reward every day.”

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf narrated to us: Mālik informed us, from Nāfiʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, who said: The Messenger of God ﷺ said: “Whoever keeps a dog, except a livestock dog or a hunting dog, will have two qīrāṭs deducted from his deeds every day.”

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Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from Bayān, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, who said: “I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ, saying, ‘We are a people who hunt with these dogs.’ He said: ‘When you release your trained dogs and invoke God’s name, eat what they catch for you, even if they kill it—unless the dog eats from it, for I fear that it only caught it for itself. And if dogs other than yours join them, do not eat.’”

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us: Thābit ibn Yazīd narrated to us: ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim (may God be pleased with him), from the Prophet ﷺ, who said: “When you release your dog and invoke God’s name, and it catches and kills [the game], eat it. If it eats from it, do not eat, for it caught it only for itself. If it joins dogs over which God’s name was not invoked, and they catch and kill [the game], do not eat, for you do not know which of them killed it. If you shoot game and find it a day or two later, with nothing on it but the mark of your arrow, eat it. But if it has fallen into water, do not eat it.”

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ʿAbd al-Aʿlā also reported, from Dāwūd, from ʿĀmir, from ʿAdī, that he said to the Prophet ﷺ: “A man hunts game and follows its tracks for two or three days, then finds it dead with his arrow in it.” He said: “He may eat it, if he wishes.”

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Ādam narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Safar, from al-Shaʿbī, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, who said: “I said, ‘Messenger of God, I release my dog and invoke God’s name.’ The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘If you release your dog and invoke God’s name, and it catches and kills [the game] and eats from it, do not eat, for it caught it only for itself.’ I said, ‘I release my dog and find another dog with it, but I do not know which of them caught the game.’ He said: ‘Do not eat, for you invoked God’s name over your dog and did not invoke it over the other.’ I asked him about game struck by the miʿraḍ, and he said: ‘If you strike it with its sharp edge, eat; but if you strike it with its broad side and it kills, it is a bluntly killed animal, so do not eat.’”

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Muḥammad narrated to me: Ibn Fuḍayl informed me, from Bayān, from ʿĀmir, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim (may God be pleased with him), who said: “I asked the Messenger of God ﷺ, saying, ‘We are a people who hunt with these dogs.’ He said: ‘When you release your trained dogs and invoke God’s name, eat what they catch for you—unless the dog eats from it. Then do not eat, for I fear that it only caught it for itself. And if a dog other than yours joins them, do not eat.’”

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Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Ḥaywah. Aḥmad ibn Abī Rajāʾ also narrated to me: Salamah ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Ibn al-Mubārak, from Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, who said: I heard Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Dimashqī say: Abū Idrīs ʿĀʾidh Allāh informed me, saying: I heard Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī (may God be pleased with him) say: “I came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and said, ‘Messenger of God, we are in a land inhabited by the People of the Book, and we eat from their vessels. We are also in a land of game: I hunt with my bow, with my trained dog, and with my untrained dog. Tell me what of this is lawful for us.’ He said: ‘As for what you mentioned—that you are in a land inhabited by the People of the Book and eat from their vessels—if you find vessels other than theirs, do not eat from theirs. If you find none, wash them and then eat from them. As for what you mentioned about being in a land of game: whatever you hunt with your bow, invoke God’s name, then eat; whatever you hunt with your trained dog, invoke God’s name, then eat; and whatever you hunt with your untrained dog, if you reach it while it is still fit for slaughter, eat.’”

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Musaddad narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us, from Shuʿbah, who said: Hishām ibn Zayd narrated to me, from Anas ibn Mālik (may God be pleased with him), who said: “We startled a rabbit at Marr al-Ẓahrān. They chased it until they were exhausted. I pursued it until I caught it, then brought it to Abū Ṭalḥah. He sent its hip and two thighs to the Prophet ﷺ, and he accepted them.”

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Ismāʿīl narrated to us, saying: Mālik narrated to me, from Abū al-Naḍr, the client of ʿUmar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, the client of Abū Qatādah, from Abū Qatādah: He was with the Messenger of God ﷺ until, on part of the road to Mecca, he fell behind with some companions who were in the state of iḥrām, while he himself was not in iḥrām. He saw a wild donkey, mounted his horse, then asked his companions to hand him a whip. They refused. He asked them for his spear, and they refused. So he took it, charged the donkey, and killed it. Some of the Messenger of God’s ﷺ companions ate from it, while others abstained. When they caught up with the Messenger of God ﷺ, they asked him about it. He said: “It is food with which God has provided you.”

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Ismāʿīl narrated to us, saying: Mālik narrated to me, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, from Abū Qatādah—a report like the preceding one, except that he said: “Do you have any of its meat with you?”

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Yaḥyā ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, saying: Ibn Wahb narrated to me: ʿAmr informed us that Abū al-Naḍr had narrated to him, from Nāfiʿ, the client of Abū Qatādah and Abū Ṣāliḥ, the client of al-Tawʾamah. I heard Abū Qatādah say: “I was with the Prophet ﷺ between Mecca and Medina. They were in the state of iḥrām, while I was not, and I was on horseback. I used to range over the mountains. While I was doing so, I saw people looking intently at something. I went to see, and it was a wild donkey. I said to them, ‘What is that?’ They said, ‘We do not know.’ I said, ‘It is a wild donkey.’ They said, ‘It is what you see.’ I had forgotten my whip, so I said to them, ‘Hand me my whip.’ They said, ‘We will not help you hunt it.’ I dismounted and took it, then followed its tracks. Before long, I had brought it down. I came to them and said, ‘Get up and carry it.’ They said, ‘We will not touch it.’ So I carried it until I brought it to them. Some of them refused to eat, and some ate. I said, ‘I will catch up with the Prophet ﷺ for you.’ I reached him and told him what had happened. He asked me, ‘Is any of it still with you?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Eat; it is food with which God has provided you.’”

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Musaddad narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: ʿAmr informed me that he heard Jābir (may God be pleased with him) say: “We went on the expedition of the army of al-Khabt, and Abū ʿUbaydah was appointed commander. We suffered severe hunger, then the sea cast up a dead fish the like of which had never been seen. It was called al-ʿAnbar. We ate from it for half a month. Abū ʿUbaydah took one of its bones, and a rider passed beneath it.”

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Sufyān informed us, from ʿAmr, who said: I heard Jābir say: “The Prophet ﷺ sent us—three hundred riders—and Abū ʿUbaydah was our commander, to watch for a Quraysh caravan. Severe hunger struck us, until we ate the leaves of al-khabt. For this reason, the expedition was called the Army of al-Khabt. Then the sea cast up a fish called al-ʿAnbar. We ate from it for half a month and rubbed ourselves with its fat until our bodies recovered. Abū ʿUbaydah took one of its ribs and stood it upright, and a rider passed beneath it. There was a man among us who, when the hunger became severe, slaughtered three camels, then another three, until Abū ʿUbaydah stopped him.”