The ruling on keeping tiger skins
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, in the hadith it is said that angels do not accompany a group in which there is a tiger skin. Does this imply that keeping tiger skins is considered one of the major sins?
Answer:
It is considered forbidden; it is considered forbidden. And among the things some ruqah practitioners use today is that they keep a wolf skin or a piece of wolf skin with them, claiming that it drives away the jinn. This is one of the superstitions. It is not permissible to use a wolf skin, nor a piece of it, nor to carry it with one, because it is a skin from a wild animal, meaning...
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, in the hadith it is said that angels do not accompany a group in which there is a tiger skin. Does this imply that keeping tiger skins is considered one of the major sins?
Answer:
It is considered forbidden; it is considered forbidden. And among the things some ruqah practitioners use today is that they keep a wolf skin or a piece of wolf skin with them, claiming that it drives away the jinn. This is one of the superstitions. It is not permissible to use a wolf skin, nor a piece of it, nor to carry it with one, because it is a skin from a wild animal, meaning...
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين [7] — alfawzan.live (50:45)
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