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Hadith 34560
Malik said, "It is not halal to eat any game that has been hunted
in the Haram, or has had a dog set after it in the Haram and then been
killed outside the Haram. Anyone that does that has to pay a forfeit
for what has been hunted. However, some one that sets his dog after
game outside the Haram and then follows it until it is hunted down in
the Haram does not have to pay any forfeit, unless he set the dog
after the game near to the Haram. The game should not be eaten,
however. If he set the dog loose near the Haram then he has to pay a
forfeit for the game."
Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 88
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Yahya related to me from Malik, from Hisham ibn Urwa, from his
father, that A'isha, umm al-muminin, said to him, "Son of my sister,
it is only for ten nights, so if you get an urge to do something,
leave it," by which she meant eating game-meat.
Malik said
that if game was hunted forthe sake of a man who is in ihram and it
was prepared for him and he ate some of it knowing that it had been
hunted for his sake, then he had to pay a forfeit for all of the game
that had been hunted on his behalf.
Malik was asked about
whether someone who was forced to eat carrion while he was in ihram
should hunt game and then eat that rather than the carrion, and he
said, "It is better for him to eat the carrion, because Allah, the
Blessed and Exalted, has not given permission for someone in ihram to
either eat game or take it in any situation, but He has made
allowances for eating carrion when absolutely necessary."
Malik said, "It is not halal for anyone, whether in ihram or not, to
eat game which has been killed or sacrificed by some one in ihram,
because, whether it was killed deliberately or by mistake, it was not
done in a halal manner, and so eating it is not halal. I have heard
this from more than one person. Somebody who kills game and then eats
it only has to make a single kaffara, which is the same as for
somebody who kills game but does not eat any of it." Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 87
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Malik said, "Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, says, 'O you who
trust, do not kill game while you are in ihram. Whoever of you kills
game intentionally has to pay a forfeit commensurate with what he has
killed in cattle which two men from among you shall judge, a
sacrificial animal which reaches the Kaba, or else he makes a kaffara
of either feeding poor people or the equivalent of that in fasting, so
that he may taste the consequences of what he has done.' " (Sura 5
ayat 95).
Malik said, "Someone who hunts game when he is not
in ihram and then kills it while he is in ihram is in the same
position as someone who buys game while he is in ihram and then kills
it. Allah has forbidden killing it, and so a man who does so has to
pay a forfeit for it. The position that we go by in this matter is
that a forfeit is assessed for anyone who kills game while he is in
ihram."
Yahya said that Malik said, "The best that I have
heard about someone who kills game and is assessed for it is that the
game which he has killed is assessed and its value in food is
estimated and with that food he feeds each poor man a mudd, or fasts a
day in place of each mudd. The number of poor men is considered, and
if it is ten then he fasts ten days, and if it is twenty he fasts
twenty days, according to how many people there are to be fed, even if
there are more than sixty."
Malik said, "I have heard that a
forfeit is assessed for someone who kills game in the Haram while he
is not in ihram in the same way that it is assessed for some one who
kills game in the Haram while he is in ihram ." Muwatta Malik Book 20, Hadith 89