What is the ruling on hunting with slings?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on hunting with slings?
The Shaykh:
This is one of the heavy projectiles, the sling stones they call the small pebbles, the pebbles of the back. It is not permissible to eat what is killed by them, because they are heavy projectiles. Yes, because a pebble does not kill by its sharpness, but by its weight. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father.
The Shaykh:
If it is slaughtered by a bullet, a rifle bullet or a shotgun shell, or something like a harpoon that is sharper, which tears the skin and passes through the body, there is no harm. It is sharper than the first arrows. Yes. But a pebble, no, a pebble does not penetrate the skin or enter the flesh. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on hunting with slings?
The Shaykh:
This is one of the heavy projectiles, the sling stones they call the small pebbles, the pebbles of the back. It is not permissible to eat what is killed by them, because they are heavy projectiles. Yes, because a pebble does not kill by its sharpness, but by its weight. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father.
The Shaykh:
If it is slaughtered by a bullet, a rifle bullet or a shotgun shell, or something like a harpoon that is sharper, which tears the skin and passes through the body, there is no harm. It is sharper than the first arrows. Yes. But a pebble, no, a pebble does not penetrate the skin or enter the flesh. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الصيد بالنباطة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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