Food, Drink & Dietary Laws

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Rafi‘ b. Khadij told that he said, “Messenger of God, we shall meet the enemy tomorrow and we have no knives; may we kill animals with canes?”* He replied, “When God’s name is mentioned you may eat what is killed...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Ka‘b b. Malik told that he had sheep which were pastured at Sal‘, and when a slavegirl of his saw one of their sheep which was dying she broke a stone and cut its throat with it. He questioned the...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Shaddad b. Aus reported God’s messenger as saying, “God who is blessed and exalted has decreed that everything should be done in a good way, so when you kill use a good method, and when you cut an animal’s throat...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Ibn ‘Umar told that he heard God’s messenger prohibit keeping an animal or anything else* waiting to be killed. *The word translated animal is bahima, which indicates a quadruped. “Anything else” means other creatures which are killed for food. The...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

He told that the Prophet cursed those who used a living creature as a target. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet as saying, "Do not take any living creature as a target." Muslim transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Jabir told that God’s messenger forbade striking the face and branding on the face. Muslim transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

He reported the Prophet as saying when an ass which had been branded on its face passed him, “God curse the one who branded it!” Muslim transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Anas told that one morning he took ‘Abdallah b. Abu Talha to God’s messenger for him to chew something and rub his palate with it,* and found him with a branding-iron in his hand branding the camels of the sadaqa....

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Hisham b. Zaid quoted Anas as saying that he went to visit the Prophet when he was in an enclosure and saw him branding sheep. He thought he said it was on their ears. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

‘Adi b. Hatim told that he said, “Tell me, messenger of God; when one of us catches game and has no knife, may he cut its throat with a flint and a splinter of stick?” He replied, “Cause the blood...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Abul ‘Ushara’* quoted his father as telling that he said, “Is the slaughtering to be done, messenger of God, only in the throat and the upper part of the breast?” He replied, “If you pierced its thigh that would serve...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

‘Adi b. Hatim reported the Prophet as saying, “Eat whatever is caught for you by a dog or a hawk which you have trained and set off when you have mentioned God’s name.” He asked whether that applied if it...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

He told that he said, “Messenger of God, I shoot at game and find my arrow in it the next day.” He replied, “When you know your arrow killed it and see no mark of a beast of prey on...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Jabir said they were forbidden game caught by a dog belonging to Magians. Tirmidhi transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Abu Tha'laba al-Khushani told that he said, “Messenger of God, we travel about and when we come to Jews, Christians and Magians we can get nothing but their vessels.” He replied, “If you can get nothing else, wash them with...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Qabisa b. Hulb quoted his father as saying that he asked the Prophet about the food of the Christians, (a version saying it was a man who asked him), adding that it was a kind of food from which he...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Abud Darda’ said God’s messenger forbade eating the mujaththama, which is the animal kept as a target for arrows. Tirmidhi transmitted it.

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Al-Irbad b. Sariya told that on the day of Khaibar God's messenger forbade every carnivorous beast which had a fang, every bird which had a claw, the flesh of domestic asses, the mujaththama, the khalisa, and sexual intercourse with pregnant...

Mishkat al-Masabih

Game and Animals Which May Be Slaughtered

Ibn ‘Abbas and Abu Huraira said God's messenger forbade the devil’s sacrification. Ibn Isa* added that this refers to the slaughtered animal whose skin is cut off and is then left to die without its jugular veins being severed. *Cf....