Is it permissible to eat from the game hunted by disbelievers?

The questioner : He also says: Many people in foreign lands, especially non-Muslims, hunt game with weapons and distribute it to Muslims without slaughtering it. Is it permissible to buy this?

The Shaykh : You mean the one who hunts it is a non-Muslim?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : The one who hunts it is a non-Muslim? Yes.

The questioner : A non-Muslim.

The Shaykh : Yes, if the hunter who is not a Muslim is from the People of the Book, the Jews and the Christians, then his game is lawful, and you do not ask whether he mentioned the name of Allah or not, because Allah the Exalted says in His Book in Surat al-Ma'idah: as 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), the scholar of the Ummah and the interpreter of the Qur'an, said. So if the hunter is a Jew or a Christian, there is no harm in eating from his game, and you do not ask whether he mentioned the name or not, because asking whether he mentioned the name or not may be an excessive strictness in the religion of Allah. And I will mention to you evidence for this. Al-Bukhari narrated in his *Sahih* from 'A'ishah that she said: . She said: . It is as if he (peace and blessings be upon him) is saying: Do not ask about the actions of others; you are only responsible for your own actions. So mention the name yourselves and eat. Mention the name on what? On the slaughter or on the eating? Not on the slaughter? No, not on the slaughter, because the slaughter is already done. But mention the name yourselves, meaning on the eating, and eat. So do not ask. And know that the chapter on hunting is broader than the chapter on slaughter. How? If you hit a bird in its belly and wound it and it dies, it becomes lawful; it becomes lawful. But if you hold a sheep and cut open its belly and it dies, it becomes forbidden, carrion. So hunting is broader, and for this reason we do not need to say whether they slaughtered it with a lawful slaughter or not, because if they hunt it and hit it in any part of the body, it is lawful. Yes.