What are the conditions for eating the slaughter of the People of the Book?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What are the conditions for eating the slaughter of the People of the Book? And is it obligatory for them to mention the name of Allah at the time of slaughter? Because some of them do not mention the name at the time of slaughter, or they mention the name of 'Isa (peace be upon him)?
Answer:
If you know that they invoke a name other than Allah, do not eat it, and do not eat[Al-An'am 6:121] upon it, or what is dedicated to other than Allah. This is what is dedicated to other than Allah, so do not eat from it, whether the one who slaughtered it is a disbeliever or a claimant of Islam, because this is shirk (associating partners with Allah), so do not eat from it. But if you do not know, you eat from it, because Allah said [Al-Ma'idah 5:5], so Allah has made it permissible for us, even if we do not know whether they invoked or did not invoke, except if we know that they invoked a name other than Allah, in which case it is shirk. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What are the conditions for eating the slaughter of the People of the Book? And is it obligatory for them to mention the name of Allah at the time of slaughter? Because some of them do not mention the name at the time of slaughter, or they mention the name of 'Isa (peace be upon him)?
Answer:
If you know that they invoke a name other than Allah, do not eat it, and do not eat
of that upon which the name of Allah
مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ اسْمُ اللَّهِand the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you
وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما هي شروط أكل ذبيحة أهل الكتاب؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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