2848 — Hannād ibn al-Sarī narrated to us, Ibn Fuḍayl narrated to us, from Bayān, from ʿĀmir, from ʿAdī ibn Ḥātim, who said: I asked the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: We hunt with these dogs. He said to me: "When you send your trained dogs and mention the name of Allah over them, then eat what they catch for you, even if it kills it — unless the dog eats from it. If it eats, then do not eat, for I fear that it only caught it for itself."

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Also recorded by al-Bukhārī (5477) and (7397), Muslim (1929), Ibn Mājah (3215), al-Tirmidhī (1531) and (1532), and al-Nasāʾī (4265), (4267), and (4305), via the chain of Manṣūr ibn al-Muʿtamir, with this same isnād. Ibn Mājah limited himself to mentioning the miʿrāḍ (the blunt-edged arrow).

It is also in "Musnad Aḥmad" (18249) and (18266), and "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (5881).

See what follows it, and what will come under numbers (2849), (2851), (2853), and (2854).

Al-Khaṭṭābī said: Its apparent meaning indicates that if he sends the dog without mentioning the name [of Allah], it is not eaten — and this is the view of the people of raʾy (the jurists of opinion), except that they said: if one omits the tasmiyah out of forgetfulness, it is lawful.

And one who does not consider the tasmiyah a condition for lawful slaughter holds that the meaning of his statement "and you mention the name of Allah" is the mention of the heart — that is, that his sending the dog is with the intention of hunting by it, not being heedless or playful, having no such intention thereby.

His statement: "I shoot with the miʿrāḍ" — the miʿrāḍ is a broad arrowhead. It contains [a word meaning] dryness [perhaps meaning desiccation; it is said in "al-Lisān": zanna ʿaṣabuhu, i.e., if his nerve dried up]. And he apparently means: if it strikes it with its sharp edge so that it penetrates the game and cuts through the rest of its skin, then eat it — and this is the meaning of his statement "fakhazaqa" (it pierced through). But if it merely struck it dead by its weight and did not pierce it, then it is carrion (maytah).

His statement: "as long as it has not been joined by a dog that is not of them" — that is, perhaps the destruction of the soul was not from your trained dog, but rather from the untrained dog.

(1) Its isnād is sound. ʿĀmir: he is Ibn Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī. Bayān: he is Ibn Bishr al-Bajalī. Ibn Fuḍayl: he is Muḥammad.

Also recorded by al-Bukhārī (5483) and (5487), Muslim (1029), and Ibn Mājah (3208), via the chain of Bayān ibn Bishr, with it. And all of them added: "And if dogs other than it have joined it, then do not eat."