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And it has also been narrated by `Adi bin Hatim that he asked the Prophet (ﷺ)
"If a hunter throws an arrow at the game and after tracing it for two or three days he finds it dead but
still bearing his arrow, (can he eat of it)?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied, "He can eat if he wishes."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 72, Hadith 11
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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If you let loose your hound after a game and mention Allah's Name on sending it,
and the hound catches the game and kills it, then you can eat of it. But if the hound eats of it, then you
should not eat thereof, for the hound has caught it for itself. And if along with your hound, joined other
hounds, and Allah's Name was not mentioned at the time of their sending, and they catch an animal
and kill it, you should not eat of it, for you will not know which of them has killed it. And if you have
thrown an arrow at the game and then find it (dead) two or three days later and, it bears no mark other
than the wound inflicted by your arrow, then you can eat of it. But if the game is found (dead) in
water, then do not eat of it."
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I said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I let loose my hound after a game and mention Allah's Name on sending
it." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If you let loose your hound after a game and you mention Allah's Name on
sending it and the hound catches and kills the game and eats of it, then you should not eat of it, for it
has killed it for itself." I said, "Sometimes when I send my hound after a game, I find another hound
along with it and I do not know which of them has caught the game." He said, "You must not eat of it
because you have not mentioned, the Name of Allah except on sending your own hound, and you did
not mention it on the other hound." Then I asked him about the game hunted with a Mi'rad (i.e. a
sharp edged piece of wood or a piece of wood provided with a sharp piece of iron used for hunting).
He said, "If the game is killed with its sharp edge, you can eat of it, but if it is killed by its broad side
(shaft), you cannot eat of it, for then it is like an animal beaten to death with a piece of wood."