What is the ruling on the slaughter of the People of the Book that is brought to the market?

The questioner : This leads me to another question, in fact, which is: the same slaughter of the People of the Book that is brought to the markets; what do they do with it?

The Shaykh : I mean, which markets? There?

The questioner : In Canada.

The Shaykh: Okay

The questioner : What do they do? Because many Muslims do not hesitate

The Shaykh : to eat it.

The questioner : To eat it, they shoot the animal with a bullet in the head until it becomes dazed, so what do they do? They shoot, for example, ten or fifteen animals, and then they start slaughtering them one by one. Of course, the fifth or sixth animal will certainly have died. So people cite the saying of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in Surat al-Ma'idah:

The Shaykh :

The questioner Does this apply to them?

The Shaykh : No, because the intended meaning of the verse is, as said by the interpreter of the Qur'an, Ibn 'Abbas: meaning their slaughter, meaning their slaughtered meat, as evidenced by the fact that the other meaning that might come to the mind of one who has no knowledge of the science of exegesis is that means their food, i.e., what they eat. A Muslim does not hold this view. And I was in Saudi Arabia a month and a bit ago, and we were, praise be to Allah, holding gatherings with some of the young men on most nights of the week. A question like this exact one came from one of the attendees, and I answered with what you are hearing. There was an Egyptian shaykh, yes, and that Egyptian said: "Some scholars have permitted the slaughter of the People of the Book, however it is done." My answer was: A Muslim does not say this.
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The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace and the mercy of Allah... Someone else, Professor.