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Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abd ar-Rahman ibn
Abi Hurayra asked Abdullah ibn Umar about eating what was cast up by
the sea and he forbade him to eat it. Then Abdullah turned and asked
for a Quran, and read, "The game of the sea and its flesh are halal
for you." Nafi added, "Abdullah ibn Umar sent me to Abdar-Rahman Ibn
Abi Hurayra to say that there was no harm in eating it."
Muwatta Malik Book 25, Hadith 9
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard some of the
people of knowledge say that when falcons, eagles, and hawks and their
like, understood as trained dogs understood, there was no harm in
eating what they had killed in the course of hunting, if the name of
Allah had been mentioned when they were sent out.
Malik said,
"The best of what I have heard about retrieving game from the falcon's
talons or from the dog's fangs and then waiting until it dies, is that
it is not halal to eat it."
Malik said, "The same applies to
anything which could have been slaughtered by the hunter when it was
in the talons of the falcon or the fangs of the dog. If the hunter
leaves it until the falcon or dog has killed it, it is not halal to
eat it either". He continued, "The same thing applies to any game hit
by a hunter and caught while still alive, which he neglects to
slaughter before it dies."
Malik said, "It is generally
agreed among us that it is halal to eat the game that a hunting-dog
belonging to magians hunts or kills, if it is sent out by a muslim and
the animal is trained. There is no harm in it even if the muslim does
not actually slaughter it.
It is the same as a muslim using a
magian's knife to slaughter with or using his bow and arrows to shoot
and kill with. The game he shot and the animal he slaughters are
halal. There is no harm in eating them. If a magian sends out a
muslim's hunting dog for game, and it catches it, the game is not to
be eaten unless it is slaughtered by a muslim. That is like a magian
using a muslim's bow and arrow to hunt game with, or like his using a
muslim's knife to slaughter with. It is not halal to eat anything
killed like that. Muwatta Malik Book 25, Hadith 8
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam that Sad al-
Jari, the mawla of Umar ibn al-Khattab asked Abdullah ibn Umar about
fish which had killed each other or which had died from severe cold .
He said, "There is no harm in eating them.'' Sad said,' 'I then asked
Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al As and he said the same." Muwatta Malik Book 25, Hadith 10