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2.0 SLAUGHTERING
2.1 Conditions for Slaughtering
1. The slaughter of a Muslim or a Kitabi is permissible [to eat].
The slaughter of a Zoroastrian, apostate, idolator or [Muslim] in ihram may notbe eaten.
2. If the slaughterer omitted the pronouncment of the name [of Allah] deliberately, then the slaughter is carrion which may not be eaten. But, if he left it out forgetfully, it may be eaten.
3. The vessels which must be severed in slaughtering are four : the trachea, the oesophagus and the two jugular veins. So, if he cut [all] these, eating [from the animal] is permissible. If he cut most of them, then similarly [it is valid] according to Abu Hanifah. Abu Yusuf and Muhammad said : it is essential to cut the trachea, the oesophagus and one of the two jugular veins.
If one reaches spinal cord with the knife, or severs the head, that is repugnant for him [to do], but the slaughter may be eaten.
If one slaughters a ewe from the back of its head, then if it remains alive until he severs the [required] vessels it is valid but repugnant. But, if it dies before the cutting of the vessels it may not be eaten.
4. It is permissible to slaughter with sharp reed or stone, or anything which causes the blood to flow out, except for an intact tooth or an intact nail.
It is recommended that the slaughterer sharpen his blade.
2.2 The Animal
1. An animal with severed ears or [severed] tail does not suffice, nor one from which the major part of the ear has gone. But, if the major portion of the ear or tail remains, it is permissible.
2. It is permissible to immolate hornless, castrated, mangy or insane animal.
3. Immolation is [only] from amongst camels, cows and sheep [or goats].
A thaniyy, or better, of [any of] these suffices, except for the sheep, of which a jadha` suffices.
4. If one pierces a camel, or slaughters a cow or sheep, and then finds in its belly a dead fetus, it may not be eaten, whether its features are discernible or not.
2.3 Methods of Slaughter
1. Domesticated game must be slaughtered, and wild livestock may be wounded [as in hunting].
2. The recommended [technique] for camels is piercing, but if one slaughters them, it is valid but disliked.
3. The recommended [technique] for cows and sheep is slaughtering, but if one pierces them, it is valid but disliked.
3.0 WHAT MAY AND MAY NOT BE EATEN
1. It is not permissible to eat any canine-toothed beast of prey, nor any taloned [predatory] bird.
There is no objection to [eating] the agrarian crow, but the speckled one which eats corpses may not be eaten.
It is repugnant to eat the hyena.
2. [It is repugnant to eat the] lizard and all vermin.
3. It is not permissible to eat the flesh of the domesticated donkey or mule.
The meat of the horse is repugnant according to Abu Hanifah.
4. There is no objection to eating the rabbit.
5. Nothing may be eaten of the animals of the water except fish.
6. It is repugnant to eat floating [fish which died on their own].
7. There is no harm in eating the jirrith and eel
8. It is permissible to eat locusts, and there is no slaughter [needed] for them.
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