The Ruling on Selling a Trained Leopard
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good. A man is unable to pay off his heavy debts. Is it permissible for him, O Shaykh, to buy and sell trained leopards? Trained leopards, the original wild beasts.
Answer:
It appears that it is not permissible because they prey and cause harm. It is not permissible. What about the falcon, the hyena, and the permissible thing? This is close to the leopard, O Shaykh. It is not suitable. Not even dogs are sold, because they are wrong. Not even a trained dog is sold. If he prohibited the sale of a dog, the sale of a wolf is more severe and blocked, and the leopard is more severe and blocked, and the lion is more severe. They are all destructive beasts. We ask Allah for safety. But if he wants a trained falcon, a trained falcon, there is no harm. No prohibition came regarding it. We train it and sell it, because his argument is that he cannot pay his heavy debts, so he sells them. He does not train it and does not sell it. He does not kill it. If he obtains it, he kills it. Yes. Likewise, dogs that are idle from training, this is difficult. If it is not for hunting, there is no harm. Or for farming, or for sheep. I saw ten things. Yes. There is no prohibition, because it benefits and does not harm.
May Allah reward you with good. A man is unable to pay off his heavy debts. Is it permissible for him, O Shaykh, to buy and sell trained leopards? Trained leopards, the original wild beasts.
Answer:
It appears that it is not permissible because they prey and cause harm. It is not permissible. What about the falcon, the hyena, and the permissible thing? This is close to the leopard, O Shaykh. It is not suitable. Not even dogs are sold, because they are wrong. Not even a trained dog is sold. If he prohibited the sale of a dog, the sale of a wolf is more severe and blocked, and the leopard is more severe and blocked, and the lion is more severe. They are all destructive beasts. We ask Allah for safety. But if he wants a trained falcon, a trained falcon, there is no harm. No prohibition came regarding it. We train it and sell it, because his argument is that he cannot pay his heavy debts, so he sells them. He does not train it and does not sell it. He does not kill it. If he obtains it, he kills it. Yes. Likewise, dogs that are idle from training, this is difficult. If it is not for hunting, there is no harm. Or for farming, or for sheep. I saw ten things. Yes. There is no prohibition, because it benefits and does not harm.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام [ ابن باز ] [ الشرح الجديد ]، باب قَسْم الصدقات — islamhouse.com (2:30)
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