The ruling on using the skins of dead animals after tanning

Question : This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on using the skins of dead animals after tanning?

Answer : The correct view is that the skins of dead animals become pure through tanning, provided the animal is one whose meat is made lawful by ritual slaughter, such as livestock. As for predators and the like, which are forbidden, their skins do not become lawful after tanning, nor before it, because they are detached from an impure animal whose impurity is inherent and not incidental. This is unlike the skin of livestock, whose impurity is incidental, arising from death, and thus becomes pure through tanning. Therefore, the correct view is that tanned skins are pure, unless they are from a forbidden animal, in which case they do not become pure. Yes.