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Any domestic animal that runs away should be treated like a wild animal.

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Darussalam · Volume 7

72 - THE BOOK OF SLAUGHTERING AND HUNTING

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الحديث: 5509 ¦ الجزء: 7 ¦ الصفحة: 93

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5509. Narrated Rāfi' bin Khadīj: I said, "O Allāh's Messenger We are going to face the enemy tomorrow, and we do not have knives." He said, "Hurry up (in killing the animal). If the killing tool causes blood to flow out, and if Allāh's Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughtered animal). But do not slaughter with a tooth or a nail. I will tell you why: As for the tooth, it is a bone; and as for the nail, it is the knife of Ethiopians." Then we got some camels and sheep as war booty, and one of those camels ran away, whereupon a man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "Of these camels there are some which are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them (runs away and) makes you tired, treat it in this manner."

Arabic text

5509 - حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ بْنِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ، عَنْ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إِنَّا لاَقُو العَدُوِّ غَدًا، وَلَيْسَتْ مَعَنَا مُدًى، فَقَالَ: " اعْجَلْ، أَوْ أَرِنْ، مَا أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللَّهِ فَكُلْ، لَيْسَ السِّنَّ وَالظُّفُرَ، وَسَأُحَدِّثُكَ: أَمَّا السِّنُّ فَعَظْمٌ، وَأَمَّا الظُّفُرُ فَمُدَى الحَبَشَةِ " وَأَصَبْنَا نَهْبَ إِبِلٍ وَغَنَمٍ، فَنَدَّ مِنْهَا بَعِيرٌ فَرَمَاهُ رَجُلٌ بِسَهْمٍ فَحَبَسَهُ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِنَّ لِهَذِهِ الإِبِلِ أَوَابِدَ كَأَوَابِدِ الوَحْشِ، فَإِذَا غَلَبَكُمْ مِنْهَا شَيْءٌ فَافْعَلُوا بِهِ هَكَذَا»

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