Is the meat from a slaughtered animal on which the name of Allah was not mentioned permissible to eat?
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Question : If a Muslim forgets to mention the name of Allah on a slaughtered animal, is it permissible to eat from it or not?
Answer : If the one who slaughters forgets to mention the name of Allah on the slaughtered animal, he commits no sin. He does not commit a sin because Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:286] However, the meat of the slaughtered animal is not to be eaten.
Because it is a slaughtered animal on which the name of Allah was not mentioned, and Allah the Exalted said:[Al-An'am 6:121] Also, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) made the mention of the name a condition for permissibility, saying: "Whatever causes blood to flow and on which the name of Allah is mentioned, eat it." The condition is not dropped by forgetfulness, but the sin is dropped. If someone asks: Why does the eater not eat from a slaughtered animal on which the name of Allah was not mentioned due to forgetfulness? We say: Because we have two actions. The first action is the action of the one who slaughters, and the second is the action of whom? The eater. We mentioned that the one who slaughters commits no sin because he forgot. As for the eater who wants to eat from this slaughtered animal on which the name was not mentioned, we say: If he ate out of forgetfulness, or ate while ignorant that the name of Allah was not mentioned on it, then there is nothing on him. But if he intentionally eats, while his Lord has said to him: [Al-An'am 6:121] then it is not permissible, even if it was out of forgetfulness.
If someone says: If you hold this view, you have wasted a lot of people's wealth, because forgetting to mention the name on the slaughtered animal happens frequently or rarely. In any case, it is rare. But if a claimant says: If you forbid what is left without the name being mentioned due to forgetfulness, you have wasted a lot of wealth. Let us suppose it is a camel worth five thousand riyals, and it was slaughtered or sacrificed without mentioning the name of Allah out of forgetfulness, and we say it is not to be eaten. How much wealth have we wasted?
Five thousand riyals. So he says: You are wasting people's wealth with this. We say: We are not wasting people's wealth; this is actually preserving people's wealth. Because the one who forgot to mention the name of Allah on this camel, and we said it is not to be eaten, if he wants to slaughter or sacrifice again, will he forget or not? He will never forget, and forgetfulness cannot happen to him. Rather, he will mention the name more than once. Yes, in any case, there is no wasting of wealth in this. And our saying that this is wasting wealth is like the saying of some: If you kill the murderer, you have increased the number of killings, because the murderer killed one person. So if you kill him, how many has he killed?
Two people. So you have increased the killings. We say: This is wrong. If I kill a murderer, hundreds of people will turn away from killing. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:179] And the saying of the one who claims this is wasting wealth is like the saying of the one who said: If you cut off the hand of the thief, half the people will become paralyzed, having only one hand. What do we say to him? We say: Rather, if we cut off the hand of the thief, hundreds of people will refrain from stealing out of fear that their hand will be cut off. But if you leave the cutting off, truly half the people...
Answer : If the one who slaughters forgets to mention the name of Allah on the slaughtered animal, he commits no sin. He does not commit a sin because Allah the Exalted said:
Our Lord, do not impose blame upon us if we have forgotten or erred.
رَبَّنَا لَا تُؤَاخِذْنَا إِن نَّسِينَا أَوْ أَخْطَأْنَاBecause it is a slaughtered animal on which the name of Allah was not mentioned, and Allah the Exalted said:
And do not eat of that upon which the name of Allah has not been mentioned
وَلَا تَأْكُلُوا مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِAnd do not eat of that upon which the name of Allah has not been mentioned
وَلَا تَأْكُلُوا مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِIf someone says: If you hold this view, you have wasted a lot of people's wealth, because forgetting to mention the name on the slaughtered animal happens frequently or rarely. In any case, it is rare. But if a claimant says: If you forbid what is left without the name being mentioned due to forgetfulness, you have wasted a lot of wealth. Let us suppose it is a camel worth five thousand riyals, and it was slaughtered or sacrificed without mentioning the name of Allah out of forgetfulness, and we say it is not to be eaten. How much wealth have we wasted?
Five thousand riyals. So he says: You are wasting people's wealth with this. We say: We are not wasting people's wealth; this is actually preserving people's wealth. Because the one who forgot to mention the name of Allah on this camel, and we said it is not to be eaten, if he wants to slaughter or sacrifice again, will he forget or not? He will never forget, and forgetfulness cannot happen to him. Rather, he will mention the name more than once. Yes, in any case, there is no wasting of wealth in this. And our saying that this is wasting wealth is like the saying of some: If you kill the murderer, you have increased the number of killings, because the murderer killed one person. So if you kill him, how many has he killed?
Two people. So you have increased the killings. We say: This is wrong. If I kill a murderer, hundreds of people will turn away from killing. For this reason, Allah the Exalted said:
And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life
وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقِصَاصِ حَيَاةٌ
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