Hunting pigeons by crushing their heads so that they die before slaughter
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The first question of Fatwa No. ( 14345 )
Q1: We have some people who operate traps for wild pigeons and other wild birds that eat grains. These traps are made of stones, and they place the grain inside them. When a bird comes and eats from it, the trap collapses on it, crushing it until it dies. It dies without being slaughtered. Is it lawful or forbidden?
A1: It is not permissible to eat it if it died due to the stones collapsing on it. However,
if a person catches it before it dies and slaughters it, and the blood flows out, then it is permissible to eat it, whether it is a bird or an animal. This is based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Ma'idah 5:3] And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions.
Q1: We have some people who operate traps for wild pigeons and other wild birds that eat grains. These traps are made of stones, and they place the grain inside them. When a bird comes and eats from it, the trap collapses on it, crushing it until it dies. It dies without being slaughtered. Is it lawful or forbidden?
A1: It is not permissible to eat it if it died due to the stones collapsing on it. However,
if a person catches it before it dies and slaughters it, and the blood flows out, then it is permissible to eat it, whether it is a bird or an animal. This is based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] slaughter [before its death]
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنْـزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلا مَا ذَكَّيْتُمْ
Source
www.alifta.gov.sa
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