Chapters on Slaughtering

“Let us go outtoWaqifi.” He said: “So we went out in the moonlight until wecame tothe garden and he (the owner of the garden) said: ‘Welcome.’Then hetook up the knife and went among the sheep (to choose one forslaughter), and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Avoid thosethatare lactating.’”

It wasnarrated from a son of Ka’b bin Malik, from his father, that awoman slaughtered a sheep with a stone, and that was mentioned to theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ), but he did not see anything wrong withthat.

“We were with the Prophet(ﷺ) on a journey, and a camel ran away. A man shot an arrow at itand the Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘It has the inclination to run awaylike awild animal. If this happens to any of you, do likewise.’”

“I said: ‘OMessenger of Allah, should slaughtering only be done in the throat orupper chest?’ He said: ‘If you stab it in the thigh that willsufficeyou.’”

“The Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) forbade mutilating animals.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)forbade tying up animals.”

‘Do not take anything with a soul as a target.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbadekillingany animal when it is tied up (for use as a target).”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade the meat and milk of Al-Jallalah.”*

“We slaughtered ahorseand ate its meat during the time of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ).”

“Atthe time of Khaibar we ate horses and wild donkeys.”

“I asked ‘Abdullah binAbuAwfa about the flesh of domesticated donkeys and he said: ‘We werestarving on the Day of Khaibar, when we were with the Prophet (ﷺ).The people had gotten some donkeys as spoils of war on the way outfrom Al-Madinah, so we slaughtered them and our cooking pots wereboiling when the caller of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cried out,telling us to overturn out pots and not to eat anything of the fleshof donkeys. So we overturned them.’ I said to ‘Abdullah bin AbuAwfa:‘Was it made unlawful?’ He said: ‘We think that theMessenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade it altogether because it eatsexcrement.’”

It wasnarrated from Miqdam bin Ma’dikarib Al-Kindi that theMessenger ofAllah (ﷺ) forbade several things, until he mentioned(the meat of)domesticated donkeys.

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) commanded us to throw away the meat of domesticated donkeys,rawor cooked, then he did not say anything to us about it afterthat.”

“We went out with theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) on the campaign of Khaibar, and in theevening the people lit their fires. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘Whatareyou cooking?’ They said: ‘The meat of domesticated donkeys.’He said:‘Throw out what is in them (the pots) and break them.’ Aman said: ‘Orcan we throw out what is in them and wash them?’The Prophet (ﷺ)said: ‘Or (do) that.’”

“Allah and His Messenger forbid you to eat the fleshofdomesticated donkeys, for it is filthy.”

“Weused to eat the meat of horses.” I said: “And mules?” He said:“No.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)forbade the flesh of horses, mules and donkeys.”

“We asked the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) about the fetus. He said: ‘Eat it if you wish, for it isconsidered legally slaughtered with the slaughtering of its mother.’”