The Ruling on Selling Predators and the Price of a Dog When There Is a Need for It
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited the price of a dog. Is it permissible to sell predators, such as lions and other wild beasts?
The Shaykh:
No, they are all dogs; they are all called dogs, and predators are even more deserving of the prohibition on selling them. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, and he also asks, may Allah preserve you, about...
The Shaykh:
But it is said that if a dog is needed, and the dog is needed for guarding or for government matters, in that it extracts forbidden items by smelling them, its scent indicating forbidden items and things hidden from them, then there is no harm in that. There is no harm in that he pays a price, not as a sale price, but as compensation for benefiting from this dog. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibited the price of a dog. Is it permissible to sell predators, such as lions and other wild beasts?
The Shaykh:
No, they are all dogs; they are all called dogs, and predators are even more deserving of the prohibition on selling them. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, and he also asks, may Allah preserve you, about...
The Shaykh:
But it is said that if a dog is needed, and the dog is needed for guarding or for government matters, in that it extracts forbidden items by smelling them, its scent indicating forbidden items and things hidden from them, then there is no harm in that. There is no harm in that he pays a price, not as a sale price, but as compensation for benefiting from this dog. Yes.
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المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين-15-02-1439هـ — alfawzan.live (56:57)
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