Hunting, Slaughtering

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Abū al-Walīd narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū Yaʿfūr, who said: I heard Ibn Abī Awfā (may God be pleased with them both) say: “We went on seven, or six, military expeditions with the Prophet ﷺ. We used to eat locusts with him.” Sufyān, Abū ʿAwānah, and Isrāʾīl said, reporting from Abū Yaʿfūr, from Ibn Abī Awfā: “Seven military expeditions.”

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Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, who said: Rabīʿah ibn Yazīd al-Dimashqī narrated to me, saying: Abū Idrīs al-Khawlānī narrated to me, saying: Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushanī narrated to me, saying: “I came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, ‘Messenger of God, we are in a land of 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.’ The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘As for what you mentioned—that you are in a land of the People of the Book—do not eat from their vessels unless you have no alternative. If you have no alternative, wash them and eat. As for what you mentioned about being in a land of game: whatever you hunt with your bow, invoke God’s name and eat; whatever you hunt with your trained dog, invoke God’s name and eat; and whatever you hunt with your untrained dog, if you reach it while it is still fit for slaughter, eat it.’”

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Al-Makkī ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, saying: Yazīd ibn Abī ʿUbayd narrated to me, from Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ, who said: “When evening came on the day they conquered Khaybar, they lit fires. The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘What have you lit these fires for?’ They said, ‘The meat of domestic donkeys.’ He said: ‘Pour out what is in them and break the pots.’ A man from the people stood up and said, ‘Shall we pour out what is in them and wash the pots?’ The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘Or do that.’”

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Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to me: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ, from his grandfather, Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: “We were with the Prophet ﷺ at Dhū al-Ḥulayfah, and hunger struck the people. We obtained camels and sheep. The Prophet ﷺ was at the rear of the people, while they hurried and set the pots on the fire. The Prophet ﷺ was brought to them and ordered the pots to be overturned. Then he divided the animals, allotting ten sheep in place of one camel. One camel bolted. There were only a few horses among the people, so they pursued it but could not catch it. A man aimed an arrow at it, and God stopped it. The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘These animals can become as wild as wild beasts. If one of them bolts from you, deal with it in this way.’”

He said: “My grandfather also said: ‘We hoped—or feared—that we would meet the enemy the next day, and we had no knives. May we slaughter with reeds?’ He said: ‘Whatever makes the blood flow, with God’s name mentioned over it, eat—except [what is slaughtered with] a tooth or a fingernail. I will tell you about them: as for the tooth, it is a bone; and as for the fingernail, it is the knife of the Abyssinians.’”

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Muʿallā ibn Asad narrated to us: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz—meaning Ibn al-Mukhtār—narrated to us: Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah informed us, saying: Sālim informed me that he heard ʿAbd Allāh relate from the Messenger of God ﷺ that he met Zayd ibn ʿAmr ibn Nufayl at the lower part of Baldah. This was before revelation had come down to the Messenger of God ﷺ. The Messenger of God ﷺ offered him a meal-spread on which there was meat, but he refused to eat from it. Then he said: “I do not eat what you slaughter for your stone idols, and I eat only what has had God’s name mentioned over it.”

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Qutaybah narrated to us: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from al-Aswad ibn Qays, from Jundab ibn Sufyān al-Bajalī, who said: “We offered a sacrifice with the Messenger of God ﷺ one day. Some people had slaughtered their sacrificial animals before the prayer. When he finished the prayer, the Prophet ﷺ saw that they had slaughtered before the prayer and said: ‘Whoever slaughtered before the prayer must slaughter another in its place. Whoever had not slaughtered until we had prayed, let him slaughter in God’s name.’”

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Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr narrated to us: Muʿtamir narrated to us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, who heard Ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik inform Ibn ʿUmar that his father had told him: “A young woman belonging to us used to graze sheep at Salʿ. She saw that one of her sheep was dying, so she broke a stone and slaughtered it with it. He said to his family, ‘Do not eat it until I go to the Prophet ﷺ and ask him—or send someone to ask him.’ He went to the Prophet ﷺ, or sent someone to him, and the Prophet ﷺ instructed that it be eaten.”

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Mūsā narrated to us: Juwayriyah narrated to us, from Nāfiʿ, from a man of Banū Salimah, who informed ʿAbd Allāh that a young woman belonging to Kaʿb ibn Mālik was grazing his sheep at al-Jubayl by the market, while he was at Salʿ. One sheep was injured, so she broke a stone and slaughtered it with it. They mentioned this to the Prophet ﷺ, and he instructed them to eat it.

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ʿAbdān narrated to us, saying: My father informed me, from Shuʿbah, from Saʿīd ibn Masrūq, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rāfiʿ, from his grandfather, who said: “Messenger of God, we have no knives.” He said: “Whatever makes the blood flow, with God’s name mentioned over it, eat—except a fingernail or a tooth. As for the fingernail, it is the knife of the Abyssinians; as for the tooth, it is a bone.” A camel bolted, and he stopped it. He said: “These camels can become as wild as wild beasts. If one of them gets the better of you, deal with it in this way.”

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Ṣadaqah narrated to us: ʿAbdah informed us, from ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, from a son of Kaʿb ibn Mālik, from his father: “A woman slaughtered a sheep with a stone. The Prophet ﷺ was asked about it, and he instructed that it be eaten.” Al-Layth said: Nāfiʿ narrated to us that he heard a man from the Anṣār inform ʿAbd Allāh, from the Prophet ﷺ, of the same report: a young woman belonging to Kaʿb [slaughtered the sheep].

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Ismāʿīl narrated to us, saying: Mālik narrated to me, from Nāfiʿ, from a man of the Anṣār, from Muʿādh ibn Saʿd—or Saʿd ibn Muʿādh—who informed him that a young woman belonging to Kaʿb ibn Mālik used to graze sheep at Salʿ. One of them was injured, and she reached it and slaughtered it with a stone. The Prophet ﷺ was asked about it and said: “Eat it.”

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Qabīṣah narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from his father, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah, from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: The Prophet ﷺ said: “Eat”—meaning, “whatever makes the blood flow”—“except a tooth or a fingernail.”

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Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh narrated to us: Usāmah ibn Ḥafṣ al-Madanī narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah (may God be pleased with her): Some people said to the Prophet ﷺ, “Some people bring us meat, and we do not know whether God’s name was mentioned over it or not.” He said: “You mention God’s name over it yourselves and eat it.” She said: “They had only recently left disbelief.” ʿAlī also transmitted it from al-Darāwardī; Abū Khālid and al-Ṭufāwī likewise transmitted it.

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Abū al-Walīd narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Ḥumayd ibn Hilāl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal (may God be pleased with him), who said: “We were besieging the fortress of Khaybar when someone threw down a leather bag containing fat. I sprang to grab it, then turned and saw the Prophet ﷺ, so I felt ashamed in front of him.”

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ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī narrated to us: Yaḥyā narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us: My father narrated to us, from ʿAbāyah ibn Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, from Rāfiʿ ibn Khadīj, who said: “I said, ‘Messenger of God, we will meet the enemy tomorrow, and we have no knives.’ He said: ‘Be quick—or show me—something that makes the blood flow, with God’s name mentioned over it, and eat. Not a tooth or a fingernail. I will explain: the tooth is a bone, and the fingernail is the knife of the Abyssinians.’ We obtained camels and sheep as spoils. One camel bolted, and a man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Messenger of God ﷺ said: ‘These camels can become as wild as wild beasts. If one of them gets the better of you, do this to it.’”

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Khallād ibn Yaḥyā narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, who said: My wife Fāṭimah daughter of al-Mundhir informed me, from Asmāʾ daughter of Abū Bakr (may God be pleased with them both), who said: “In the time of the Prophet ﷺ, we slaughtered a horse and ate it.”

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Isḥāq narrated to us. He heard ʿAbdah, from Hishām, from Fāṭimah, from Asmāʾ, who said: “During the lifetime of the Messenger of God ﷺ, while we were in Medina, we slaughtered a horse and ate it.”

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Qutaybah narrated to us: Jarīr narrated to us, from Hishām, from Fāṭimah daughter of al-Mundhir, that Asmāʾ daughter of Abū Bakr said: “During the lifetime of the Messenger of God ﷺ, we slaughtered a horse and ate it.” Wakīʿ and Ibn ʿUyaynah corroborated Hishām’s report in using the word “slaughtered.”

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Abū al-Walīd narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Hishām ibn Zayd, who said: “I entered with Anas upon al-Ḥakam ibn Ayyūb. He saw some boys—or young men—who had set up a chicken as a target and were shooting at it. Anas said: ‘The Prophet ﷺ forbade making animals targets.’”

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Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb narrated to us: Isḥāq ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAmr informed us, from his father, who said that he heard him relate from Ibn ʿUmar (may God be pleased with them both): He entered upon Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd while a boy from the family of Yaḥyā had tied up a chicken and was shooting at it. Ibn ʿUmar walked over and untied it, then returned with the chicken and the boy. He said: “Reprimand your boy for confining this bird to be killed. I heard the Prophet ﷺ forbid confining an animal—or any other creature—to be killed.”