What is prescribed regarding the treatment of a sick animal?
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Question:
Some people have a sick animal that is on the verge of death, so they throw it away to relieve it from the illness?
Answer:
What is obligatory is that if he slaughters it, there is no harm, and if he leaves it, there is no harm. If someone wants to benefit from it, he may sell it to him. And if he does not seek to benefit from it... if he leaves it until it dies, there is no harm, and if he slaughters it so that perhaps someone will eat it, there is no harm.
Q: He slaughters it without seeking benefit?
A: If he slaughters it, there is no harm, so that perhaps someone will eat it if it is permissible: such as a sheep, or the like.
Q: It is sick?
A: Some people may eat it even if it is sick.
Some people have a sick animal that is on the verge of death, so they throw it away to relieve it from the illness?
Answer:
What is obligatory is that if he slaughters it, there is no harm, and if he leaves it, there is no harm. If someone wants to benefit from it, he may sell it to him. And if he does not seek to benefit from it... if he leaves it until it dies, there is no harm, and if he slaughters it so that perhaps someone will eat it, there is no harm.
Q: He slaughters it without seeking benefit?
A: If he slaughters it, there is no harm, so that perhaps someone will eat it if it is permissible: such as a sheep, or the like.
Q: It is sick?
A: Some people may eat it even if it is sick.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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