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Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said that he met Zaid bin `Amr Nufail at a place near Baldah and this had happened
before Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) received the Divine Inspiration. Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) presented a dish of meat (that
had been offered to him by the pagans) to Zaid bin `Amr, but Zaid refused to eat of it and then said (to
the pagans), "I do not eat of what you slaughter on your stonealtars (Ansabs) nor do I eat except that
on which Allah's Name has been mentioned on slaughtering."
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 72, Hadith 25
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We were with the Prophet (ﷺ) in Dhul-Hulaifa and there the people were struck with severe hunger. Then
we got camels and sheep as war booty (and slaughtered them). The Prophet (ﷺ) was behind all the people.
The people hurried and fixed the cooking pots (for cooking) but the Prophet (ﷺ) came there and ordered
that the cooking pots be turned upside down. Then he distributed the animals, regarding ten sheep as
equal to one camel. One of the camels ran away and there were a few horses with the people. They
chased the camel but they got tired, whereupon a man shot it with an arrow whereby Allah stopped it.
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Among these animals some are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them runs away
from you, treat it in this way." I said. "We hope, or we are afraid that tomorrow we will meet the
enemy and we have no knives, shall we slaughter (our animals) with canes?" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If the
killing tool causes blood to gush out and if Allah's Name is mentioned, eat (of the slaughterer animal).
But do not slaughter with a tooth or a nail. I am telling you why: A tooth is a bone, and the nail is the
knife of Ethiopians."
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Once during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) we offered some animals as sacrifices. Some people
slaughtered their sacrifices before the (Id) prayer, so when the Prophet (ﷺ) finished his prayer, he saw that
they had slaughtered their sacrifices before the prayer. He said, "Whoever has slaughtered (his
sacrifice) before the prayer, should slaughter (another sacrifice) in lieu of it; and whoever has not yet
slaughtered it till we have prayed; should slaughter (it) by mentioning Allah's Name."