صحيح البخاري

Hadith 5544

Book 72: The Book of Slaughtering and Hunting

كِتَاب الذَّبَائِحِ وَالصَّيْدِ

Chapter 37

(37) Chapter. If a camel of some people runs away and one of them shoots it with an arrow and kills it for their own good, then it is permissibl. Rafi narrates this on the authority of the Prophet.

37- بَابُ إِذَا نَدَّ بَعِيرٌ لِقَوْمٍ فَرَمَاهُ بَعْضُهُمْ بِسَهْمٍ فَقَتَلَهُ فَأَرَادَ إِصْلاَحَهُمْ فَهْوَ جَائِزٌ:

English narration

Narrated by رافع بن خديج الأنصاري

While we were with the Prophet. on a journey, one of the camels ran away. A man shot it with an arrow and stopped it. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Of these camels some are as wild as wild beasts, so if one of them runs away and you cannot catch it, then do like this (shoot it with an arrow)." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Sometimes when we are in battles or on a journey we want to slaughter (animals) but we have no knives." He said, "Listen! If you slaughter the animal with anything that causes its blood to flow out, and if Allah's Name is mentioned on slaughtering it, eat of it, provided that the slaughtering instrument is not a tooth or a nail, as the tooth is a bone and the nail is the knife of Ethiopians."

النص العربي

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَامٍ ، أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الطَّنَافِسِيُّ ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ مَسْرُوقٍ ، عَنْ عَبَايَةَ بْنِ رِفَاعَةَ ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ ، قَالَ : كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي سَفَرٍ فَنَدَّ بَعِيرٌ مِنَ الْإِبِلِ ، قَالَ : فَرَمَاهُ رَجُلٌ بِسَهْمٍ فَحَبَسَهُ ، قَالَ : ثُمَّ قَالَ : "

إِنَّ لَهَا أَوَابِدَ كَأَوَابِدِ الْوَحْشِ ، فَمَا غَلَبَكُمْ مِنْهَا فَاصْنَعُوا بِهِ

" ، هَكَذَا قَالَ : قُلْتُ : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّا نَكُونُ فِي الْمَغَازِي وَالْأَسْفَارِ فَنُرِيدُ أَنْ نَذْبَحَ فَلَا تَكُونُ مُدًى ، قَالَ : " أَرِنْ مَا نَهَرَ أَوْ أَنْهَرَ الدَّمَ ، وَذُكِرَ اسْمُ اللَّهِ فَكُلْ غَيْرَ السِّنِّ وَالظُّفُرِ ، فَإِنَّ السِّنَّ عَظْمٌ ، وَالظُّفُرَ مُدَى الْحَبَشَةِ " .

Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari 5544In-book: Book 72, Hadith 5544

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