What is the ruling on one who does not eat except what a Muslim has slaughtered, and the one who performs the slaughter takes a sum from him in exchange for slaughtering it?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, in our land there are customs of the disbelievers; they do not eat except what a Muslim has slaughtered.
The Shaykh : Except what?
The questioner : They do not eat the slaughtered animal unless a Muslim man slaughters it, and this Muslim man takes a specific sum from them. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh : Meaning, a wage for the slaughter?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : First: the fact that they do not eat except what a Muslim has slaughtered is an error, because Allah has made lawful for us the slaughter of the Jews and the Christians. He the Exalted said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:5], Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him and his father) said: "Their food is their slaughter". So those whose slaughter is lawful are three categories:
The Muslim, the Jew, and the Christian.
So if a Muslim slaughters the animal and asks for a wage for it, whether before the slaughter or after it, there is no harm, because this is a permissible work, and taking a wage for permissible work is permissible. Yes.
The Shaykh : Except what?
The questioner : They do not eat the slaughtered animal unless a Muslim man slaughters it, and this Muslim man takes a specific sum from them. Is this permissible?
The Shaykh : Meaning, a wage for the slaughter?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : First: the fact that they do not eat except what a Muslim has slaughtered is an error, because Allah has made lawful for us the slaughter of the Jews and the Christians. He the Exalted said:
and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them
وطعام الذين أوتوا الكتاب حلّ لكم وطعامكم حلّ لهمThe Muslim, the Jew, and the Christian.
So if a Muslim slaughters the animal and asks for a wage for it, whether before the slaughter or after it, there is no harm, because this is a permissible work, and taking a wage for permissible work is permissible. Yes.