The ruling on using what the disbelievers have made from skins
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The questioner:
And the vision of Shaykh Abu 'Abd al-Rahman and the change in its skin, so is it permissible to use this skin?
The Shaykh:
How did your skin change? Expressions that do not validate the use of its skin, whether you changed it or... I mean, my intention is that it is tanned?
Another questioner:
Tanned.
The Shaykh:
It is argued that war does not argue that, and poison does not argue that. War is from insects. Yes. This will come, if Allah wills, it will come, it will come in the hadiths, but there is no harm in hastening the answer. In the land of the disbelievers, there is no harm with it, and what they have tanned or preserved or used, there is no harm in using it, if we know that it is from animals that are forbidden for us. But if we do not know, it may be sheep skins or camel skins or cow skins, then there is no harm.
And the vision of Shaykh Abu 'Abd al-Rahman and the change in its skin, so is it permissible to use this skin?
The Shaykh:
How did your skin change? Expressions that do not validate the use of its skin, whether you changed it or... I mean, my intention is that it is tanned?
Another questioner:
Tanned.
The Shaykh:
It is argued that war does not argue that, and poison does not argue that. War is from insects. Yes. This will come, if Allah wills, it will come, it will come in the hadiths, but there is no harm in hastening the answer. In the land of the disbelievers, there is no harm with it, and what they have tanned or preserved or used, there is no harm in using it, if we know that it is from animals that are forbidden for us. But if we do not know, it may be sheep skins or camel skins or cow skins, then there is no harm.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب الآنية - 1 — islamhouse.com (1:07:36)
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