What is the ruling on chicken that is slaughtered in America?
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The questioner : The problem with chicken, O Shaykh, is specifically with the chicken.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is its ruling, I mean?
The Shaykh : Do you mean the killed chicken?
The questioner : We do not know for certain whether there are slaughterhouses that kill and others that slaughter, but the most likely, and Allah knows best, is that it is slaughtered.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. The slaughtered one will have its head with it, and the mark of the knife on its neck will be clear. I saw this with my own eyes when I was able to go to Spain, the old Islamic Andalus. I saw them displaying chicken prepared for cooking, and the head of the chicken was one piece with the body, meaning it was strangled. So if the head is cut off, it means it was slaughtered, and in that case, the problem is resolved. But if the head is one piece with the body, it means it was killed.
The questioner : Here in all of America and Canada, there is nothing of this kind. You find the head separated in all of it; you do not see the head.
The Shaykh : You do not see the head.
The questioner : Not at all, not at all.
The Shaykh : Okay, how did you know that there is this and that?
The questioner : Yes, I know this. What I know is that there is a large slaughterhouse here where two men, who are Muslims, perform the slaughter.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : As for other places, I was told that some strangle, but the truth is I have not seen it with my own eyes.
The Shaykh : So a person does what is possible, which is to buy.
The questioner : By electricity or gas, but I have not seen this; it is merely hearsay.
The Shaykh : Verify the hearsay and proceed based on what you verify.
The questioner : As long as we know that it is slaughtered, the issue is resolved.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is its ruling, I mean?
The Shaykh : Do you mean the killed chicken?
The questioner : We do not know for certain whether there are slaughterhouses that kill and others that slaughter, but the most likely, and Allah knows best, is that it is slaughtered.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. The slaughtered one will have its head with it, and the mark of the knife on its neck will be clear. I saw this with my own eyes when I was able to go to Spain, the old Islamic Andalus. I saw them displaying chicken prepared for cooking, and the head of the chicken was one piece with the body, meaning it was strangled. So if the head is cut off, it means it was slaughtered, and in that case, the problem is resolved. But if the head is one piece with the body, it means it was killed.
The questioner : Here in all of America and Canada, there is nothing of this kind. You find the head separated in all of it; you do not see the head.
The Shaykh : You do not see the head.
The questioner : Not at all, not at all.
The Shaykh : Okay, how did you know that there is this and that?
The questioner : Yes, I know this. What I know is that there is a large slaughterhouse here where two men, who are Muslims, perform the slaughter.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : As for other places, I was told that some strangle, but the truth is I have not seen it with my own eyes.
The Shaykh : So a person does what is possible, which is to buy.
The questioner : By electricity or gas, but I have not seen this; it is merely hearsay.
The Shaykh : Verify the hearsay and proceed based on what you verify.
The questioner : As long as we know that it is slaughtered, the issue is resolved.
The Shaykh: Yes.
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