What is the ruling on the practice that has spread among some tribes in the south of slaughtering after the harvest season?
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Question:
In the southern regions, there is a custom where some tribes or individuals from the tribes slaughter an animal after the agricultural harvest. It is for the sake of Allah, and the name of Allah is mentioned over it. What is the ruling? And is it obligatory for one whose father used to slaughter it, or not?
Answer:
If this is one of their customs, that after the harvest they slaughter an animal so that they, their neighbors, and those who cooperated with them in the harvest can gather over it, and it is a custom among them and not one of their obligations, then it is a custom. They may leave it off, and they may do it, and there is no harm in that. However, if they believe that it is obligatory, and that whoever does not do it will be blamed by people, and people will reprimand him for it, and they consider it obligatory, then this is not permissible. This is consuming wealth unjustly. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-Baqarah 2:188]
In the southern regions, there is a custom where some tribes or individuals from the tribes slaughter an animal after the agricultural harvest. It is for the sake of Allah, and the name of Allah is mentioned over it. What is the ruling? And is it obligatory for one whose father used to slaughter it, or not?
Answer:
If this is one of their customs, that after the harvest they slaughter an animal so that they, their neighbors, and those who cooperated with them in the harvest can gather over it, and it is a custom among them and not one of their obligations, then it is a custom. They may leave it off, and they may do it, and there is no harm in that. However, if they believe that it is obligatory, and that whoever does not do it will be blamed by people, and people will reprimand him for it, and they consider it obligatory, then this is not permissible. This is consuming wealth unjustly. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
And do not consume one another's wealth unjustly
وَلَا تَأْكُلُوا أَمْوَالَكُم بَيْنَكُم بِالْبَاطِلِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم ما انتشر في بعض قبائل الجنوب من الذبح بعد موسم الحصاد؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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