Slaughtering game by pulling the neck until it separates

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, some of those who hunt birds and partridges pull the neck until the game dies, and the neck separates from the animal after saying the basmalah. Is this considered a lawful slaughter according to the Shari'ah?

Answer:
The Shaykh: No, it is not a lawful slaughter; it is not a Sharia-compliant slaughter, and it is torture of the animal. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

So when you kill, then do the killing well, and when you slaughter, then do the slaughtering well. Let one of you sharpen his blade, and let him comfort his animal (before slaughtering).

اذا قتلتم فاحسنوا القتله واذا ذبحتم فاحسنوا الذبحه وليحد احدكم شفرته وليرح ذبيحته

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1409Sahih (Darussalam)

Also, this method does not involve cutting the windpipe or the jugular veins; there is no cutting of the windpipe or the jugular veins, only pulling the neck, and the blood remains in the bird and does not come out. This is carrion, and it is not permissible

Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been

حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:3]

to other than Allah, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten

لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ

[Al-Ma'idah 5:3]

all of these, because they were not slaughtered with a Sharia-compliant slaughter. Yes.

Source الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - ٠٧٥-كتاب الطلاق - ٣-٢-٢٥ هـ — archive.org (30:55)

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