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2821. It was reported from Rāfi' bin Khadīj who said: "I came to the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and said: 'O Messenger of Allāh! We shall be meeting the enemy tomorrow, and we have no knives. Can we slaughter with Marwah and with a splinter of a staff?' The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'Make the slaughtering quick, (using) whatever makes the blood flow, and (when) Allāh's Name has been mentioned, then eat from it, except for the tooth and nail. I will tell you about it. As for the tooth, it is a bone, and the nail is the knife of the Ethiopians.' Some people hastened and went forward. They hurried and got spoils. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was in the
rear. And they set up cooking pots. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ passed by the pots and ordered them to be turned over. He then divided the spoils among them, and he equated a camel to ten sheep. One of the camels of the people ran away, and they had no horses with them at the time. A man shot an arrow at it, and Allāh prevented it from escaping. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: 'Some of these animals bolt like wild animals, so whenever any of them does so, do like this with it.'" (Sahih)
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Footnotes
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[1] It was a custom that two men would compete in hospitality with each other, slaughtering as many camels as they could, whoever slaughtered the most for the other, he was the victor. It was disliked because the animals were slaughtered only to show off and to boast. See no. 3222 for a related narration.
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[2] A type of stone, like marble or granite, and they say that Al-Marwāh, the mount opposite Aṣ-Ṣafā, was made of it.
Commentary
It is allowed to slaughter an animal with any blade, be it made of flint, marble, etc., as well as a stake or other than that which will make the blood flow. Slaughtering with teeth, bones and fingernails is, however, prohibited since it is a practice of idolaters.
