If a Hawk Eats from Its Game, What Is the Ruling?

It is narrated from Hazrat Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) that I asked the Prophet (peace be upon him) about hunting with a falcon. He said: Eat whatever the falcon hunts for you.

Hazrat Saeed says that if a hawk eats from the prey, then you should not eat it.

Hazrat Jabir and Hazrat Sha'bi say that eat the prey of a hawk, even if it has eaten from it itself.

20816 - From Jabir, from al-Sha'bi, they said: All that is hunted by the falcon is permissible, even if it eats from it.

Hazrat Mak'hool says that if a hawk eats from its prey, you may still eat it.

Hazrat Dahhak says that if a trained dog or hawk eats some of the game, then you should not eat it.

Hazrat Hammad says that if a hunting bird tears or eats the prey, then you may also eat from it, because its training is only that it returns to you.

Hazrat Amir and Hazrat Hakam state that if you release your trained hawk or falcon for hunting, then you call it and it returns to you, this is its training. If you release such a bird for hunting and it eats from the prey, then you may also eat from it.

Hazrat Salman says that when you release your dog or hawk for hunting, then eat its prey even if it has eaten two-thirds of it.

Hazrat Ikrimah says that if a hawk or a falcon eats from the game, then do not eat it.

Hazan and Hazrat Ata were asked about the hawk and the shrike: if they eat from the prey, what is the ruling? Hazrat Ata said that in such a case, do not eat. Hazan said, eat.

20824 - Al-Hasan said: "Eat."

Hazrat Tawus considered hunting of the cheetah to be permissible.

Hazrat Mujahid says that the cheetah is a hunting animal.

Hazrat Hammad says that there is no harm in hunting with a cheetah.

Hazrat Zuhri says that there is no harm in hunting the cheetah.

Hasan says that the cheetah and the falcon are like the dog.

Ibrahim considered it disliked to eat from the game from which a dog or a cheetah had eaten, but if a falcon ate from it, he did not see any harm in it, because the dog and the cheetah are fond of eating the game, whereas the falcon is not.