The ruling on slaughtering a sick animal that yields no benefit
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on slaughtering a sick animal that yields no benefit, where keeping it is a loss for its owner, and it is known that its illness is not expected to end?
Answer:
The position of the school of jurisprudence is that it is not permissible to slaughter an animal except for eating it. If it is causing harm, that is one matter; but as long as it is not causing harm, and he does not want to eat it, and no one else wants to eat it, then he should leave it. He should leave it to either recover or die, and not slaughter it, because slaughtering it is a waste of money.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on slaughtering a sick animal that yields no benefit, where keeping it is a loss for its owner, and it is known that its illness is not expected to end?
Answer:
The position of the school of jurisprudence is that it is not permissible to slaughter an animal except for eating it. If it is causing harm, that is one matter; but as long as it is not causing harm, and he does not want to eat it, and no one else wants to eat it, then he should leave it. He should leave it to either recover or die, and not slaughter it, because slaughtering it is a waste of money.
Source
ذبح الحيوان الذي لا يرجى برؤه — alfawzan.live
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