Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

A sacrifice on which a name other than Allah is invoked

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
And Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the one who slaughters invokes the name of Muhammad instead of the name of Allah, is his slaughter permissible?

The Shaykh:
No, any slaughter that is shirk (associating partners with Allah) is not permissible. If the one who slaughters invokes the name of Muhammad, or the name of 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, or the name of such-and-such a wali (close friend of Allah), or the name of al-Husayn, this is shirk slaughter and is not permissible, because a name other than Allah was invoked over it. Allah the Exalted says, and when He mentioned the prohibited things, He said:
and that which has been dedicated to other than Allahوَمَا أُهِلَّ بِهِ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ
[Al-Baqarah 2:173]
I have researched this regarding invoking a name other than Allah, yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh.

The Shaykh:
Likewise, if a Christian slaughters in the name of Christ, or in the name of the Holy Spirit, or what they call the Trinity, it is not permissible. If you hear him say this, it is not permissible. But if you do not hear him, the default ruling regarding his slaughter is that it is permissible, in accordance with the saying of Allah the Exalted:
and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for youوَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:5]
Source شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب الآنية - 1 — islamhouse.com (19:25)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa