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I asked Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), "We hunt with these hounds." He said, "If you send your trained hounds after
a game and mention Allah's Name on sending, you can eat of what they catch for you. But if the
hound eats of the game, then you must not eat of it, for I am afraid that the hound caught it for itself,
and if another hound joins your hounds (during the hunt), you should not eat of the game."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 72, Hadith 13
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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."
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I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We are living in the land of the people of the
Scripture and we take our meals in their utensils, and in the land there is game and I hunt with my bow
and trained or untrained hounds; please tell me what is lawful for us of that." He said, "As for your
saying that you are living in the land of the people of the Scripture and that you eat in their utensils, if
you can get utensils other than theirs, do not eat in their utensils, but if you do not find (other than
theirs), then wash their utensils and eat in them. As for your saying that you are in the land of game, if
you hung something with your bow, and have mentioned Allah's Name while hunting, then you can
eat (the game). And if you hunt something with your trained hound, and have mentioned Allah's
Name on sending it for hunting then you can eat (the game). But if you hunt something with your
untrained hound and you were able to slaughter it before its death, you can eat of it."