What is the ruling on selling a slaughtered animal while it is still alive by the kilogram, including everything in it? Is this permissible?

The questioner : May Allah reward the honorableThe Shaykh : With the increase in travel, the purchase of sacrificial animals increases. We have heard that there are people who sell sacrificial animals alive by the kilogram, meaning they weigh them while alive, including their blood, meat, milk, and everything else in them, at a certain price per kilogram. Is this permissible?

The Shaykh : It is established in *Sahih Muslim* from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) So we apply this transaction to this hadith. If he sells it alive by weight, is there excessive uncertainty (gharar) in that or not? There is excessive uncertainty. Its belly may be full of water, and its weight will increase, so the kilogram of water is counted like a kilogram of meat, and this is undoubtedly ignorance (jahalah). The seller may also intentionally commit fraud in this case; if he wants to sell it, he fills its belly with water. Similarly, some people, when they want to sell a milking sheep, squeeze it so that whoever sees its udder thinks it has a lot of milk. For this reason, we say it is not permissible to sell it by weight. Instead of selling it by weight, sell it as a lump sum (jaza'afan). What is the objection? But sometimes a person beautifies his bad deed, and may Allah protect us from that, and he thinks it is good. Instead of saying "weigh it," you come with a kilogram or fifty kilograms or the like. For example, if the kilogram is five, and it is fifty kilograms, how much does that come to? Two hundred and fifty. We say two hundred and fifty without weighing, three hundred, two hundred, without weighing.