Acquiring police dogs for detecting narcotics
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The questioner:
Yes. The general police dogs that detect narcotics.
The Shaykh:
It is said that it is forbidden to use them because they are not from the Salaf, and according to his opinion, one argues by analogy, having analogized them to guarding sheep and water skins. This matter is permissible just as they permit guarding houses with them. 'Abd al-Barr mentioned it, and a group of other scholars mentioned it, but there is a point of consideration. They say that these are beneficial, that they are good, and that they are useful, and that they are relied upon for the interests of the Muslims. It may be said that they are even more permissible, if these dogs are for hunting, plowing, and sheep, then what is for the general interests of the Muslims is more deserving and obligatory, unlike guarding a house, where the house represents a specific part, whereas these are large general interests. It may be said that they are permissible if they are mostly truthful and mostly beneficial based on experience. As for what they mentioned, these are general interests that are excluded from the prohibition as a matter of priority. Yes.
The questioner:
Meaning, I acquired this.
The Shaykh:
It is even more permissible if, as they said about them, they are beneficial and they are accurate in what they alert to, so they
The questioner:
also. Let us test them in the houses. Yes. Yes.
The Shaykh:
It may be said for specific places, it may be said yes.
Yes. The general police dogs that detect narcotics.
The Shaykh:
It is said that it is forbidden to use them because they are not from the Salaf, and according to his opinion, one argues by analogy, having analogized them to guarding sheep and water skins. This matter is permissible just as they permit guarding houses with them. 'Abd al-Barr mentioned it, and a group of other scholars mentioned it, but there is a point of consideration. They say that these are beneficial, that they are good, and that they are useful, and that they are relied upon for the interests of the Muslims. It may be said that they are even more permissible, if these dogs are for hunting, plowing, and sheep, then what is for the general interests of the Muslims is more deserving and obligatory, unlike guarding a house, where the house represents a specific part, whereas these are large general interests. It may be said that they are permissible if they are mostly truthful and mostly beneficial based on experience. As for what they mentioned, these are general interests that are excluded from the prohibition as a matter of priority. Yes.
The questioner:
Meaning, I acquired this.
The Shaykh:
It is even more permissible if, as they said about them, they are beneficial and they are accurate in what they alert to, so they
The questioner:
also. Let us test them in the houses. Yes. Yes.
The Shaykh:
It may be said for specific places, it may be said yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح القديم ]، بداية من كتاب الأطعمة — islamhouse.com (30:10)
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