“He killed it?” He said: “If he killed it and did not eat any of it, then he only caught it for you.” (1)

Abu Dawud said: The falcon—if it eats, there is no harm in it, and the dog—if it eats, it is disliked, and if it drinks the blood, there is no harm in it. (2)

2852 — Muhammad ibn Isa narrated to us, Hushaym narrated to us, Dawud ibn Amr narrated to us, from Busr ibn Ubayd Allah, from Abu Idris al-Khawlani—

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(1) A sound hadith apart from the mention of the falcon, for none of the trustworthy narrators of al-Sha’bi mentioned it in the hadith of Adi except Mujalid — and he is Ibn Sa’id — and he is weak. However, the hunting of birds of prey is supported by the saying of Allah the Exalted: {Say: Lawful for you are the good things, and what you have taught of hunting creatures, training them, teaching them of what Allah has taught you. So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of Allah over it} [al-Ma’idah: 4].

It was also narrated in abbreviated form mentioning only the hunting of the falcon: al-Tirmidhi (1534) via the chain of Mujalid ibn Sa’id, from him. He said: A hadith we know only from the hadith of Mujalid, from al-Sha’bi.

It was also narrated mentioning only the trained dog (1537) via the chain of Mujalid, from him. And he added the mention of the mixing of dogs with the trained dog, which has already preceded under number (2849), and will come under number (2854).

And see what has preceded under numbers (2847) and (2847).

Al-Tirmidhi said: The practice according to this among the people of knowledge is that they see no harm in hunting with falcons and hawks. And Mujahid said: The falcons are the birds used for hunting among the birds of prey that Allah the Exalted mentioned: {And what you have taught of hunting creatures}, interpreting it as the dogs and the birds used for hunting.

He said: Some of the people of knowledge permitted hunting with the falcon even if it ate from it, and they said: Its training is only its responding. And some of them disliked it, and most of the jurists said: We eat even if it ate from it.

Al-Dumayri said in “Hayat al-Hayawan” 1/152–153: The falcon (al-bazi): the most eloquent of its forms is “bazi” with a lightened ya, the second is “baz,” and the third is “bazi” with a doubled ya, both narrated by Ibn Sidah. He said: Its word is derived from al-bazawan, which is leaping. And it is said of falcons, goshawks, and others that hunt: hawks.

(2) This statement of Abu Dawud we have established from the margin of (H), and it was indicated there that it is from the narration of Ibn al-A’rabi.