What is the stronger opinion regarding the purification of the skins of dead animals by tanning?
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Question:
What is the stronger opinion regarding the purification of the skins of dead animals by tanning? Does it become pure thereby, such that it is permissible to pray in it?
Answer:
The stronger opinion is that if the dead animal is of a type whose meat is lawful to eat if slaughtered properly, then its tanned skin may be used. If a sheep dies, or a camel dies, or a cow dies—meaning it becomes a dead animal—and its skin is taken and tanned, then the correct view is that it is permissible to use it, because tanning purifies it. Any skin that is tanned becomes pure, whether purified by water and soapwort or otherwise. As for what is not edible, it is not permissible; this is the correct view.
What is the stronger opinion regarding the purification of the skins of dead animals by tanning? Does it become pure thereby, such that it is permissible to pray in it?
Answer:
The stronger opinion is that if the dead animal is of a type whose meat is lawful to eat if slaughtered properly, then its tanned skin may be used. If a sheep dies, or a camel dies, or a cow dies—meaning it becomes a dead animal—and its skin is taken and tanned, then the correct view is that it is permissible to use it, because tanning purifies it. Any skin that is tanned becomes pure, whether purified by water and soapwort or otherwise. As for what is not edible, it is not permissible; this is the correct view.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [515 -3022] ما القول الراجح في طهارة جلود الميتة بالدباغ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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