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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If you find a slaughtered animal in a country where most of the butchers are those whose slaughter is not permissible, is the slaughtered animal lawful or forbidden?

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Question : Likewise, you found a slaughtered animal in a country where most of the butchers are those whose slaughter is not permissible, and among them are those whose slaughter is permissible. Do you rule that the slaughtered animal is lawful and not forbidden? Do you see that most of the people of the country who slaughter are those whose slaughter is not permissible, forbidden and not lawful? Is it forbidden based on what? Based on the majority. And if the opposite is the majority, that those who perform the slaughter in this country are Muslims or People of the Book, Jews or Christians,

Answer : then it is lawful. And if they are equal in your view, you have the choice, but the best is to avoid it without a doubt, due to the possibility that the one who slaughtered is among those whose slaughter is not permissible.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 31 - 64 إذا وجدت ذبيحة في بلد أكثر ذباحيه ممن لا تحل ذبائهم فهل الذبيحة حلال أم حرام؟ - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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