Book 72: Hunting, Slaughtering

Sahih al-Bukhari 5263 (Book 72, Hadith 1) Narrated Adi bin Hatim: I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) about the game killed by 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, […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5264 (Book 72, Hadith 2) Narrated `Adi bin Hatim: I asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) about the Mi’rad. He said, “If you hit the game with its sharp edge, eat it, but if the Mi’rad hits the game with its shaft with a hit by its broad side do not eat it, for it […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5265 (Book 72, Hadith 3) Narrated Adi bin Hatim: I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! We let loose our trained hounds after a game?” He said, “Eat what they hunt for you.” I said, “Even if they killed (the game)?” He replied, ‘Even if they killed (the game).” I said, ‘We also hit […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5266 (Book 72, Hadith 4) Narrated Abu Tha`laba Al-Khushani: I said, “O Allah’s Prophet! We are living in a land ruled by the people of the Scripture; Can we take our meals in their utensils? In that land there is plenty of game and I hunt the game with my bow and with […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5267 (Book 72, Hadith 5) Narrated `Abdullah bin Maghaffal: that he saw a man throwing stones with two fingers (at something) and said to him, “Do not throw stones, for Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) has forbidden throwing stones, or he used to dislike it.” `Abdullah added: Throwing stones will neither hunt the game, nor […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5271 (Book 72, Hadith 9) Narrated Adi bin Hatim: I asked Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). “We hunt with the help of these hounds.” He said, “If you let loose your trained hounds after a game, and mention the name of Allah, then you can eat what the hounds catch for you, even if they […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5272 (Book 72, Hadith 10) Narrated Adi bin Hatim: 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 […]

Sahih al-Bukhari 5273 (Book 72, Hadith 11) 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)?” […]