Hunting with the mirad (blunt shaft)

Sayyiduna Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about hunting with the mi'rad, and he said: "If its point strikes the animal, eat it; and if its broad side strikes it, then it is carrion." (The mi'rad is an arrow without feathers; it strikes the target with its broad side, not with its point.)

Sayyiduna Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah! If we hunt with the mi'rad, is it lawful for us?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Of the game caught with the mi'rad, only the animal that you slaughter is lawful for you."

Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) used to eat game killed with the mi'rad.

Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the mi'rad penetrates into the game, eat it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Game struck by the mi'rad is not lawful unless it cuts into its body.

The same is reported through another chain.

Makhul said: A man came to Sayyiduna Fadalah bin Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him), the Companion of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), with some small birds that he had hunted with a mi'rad. Some of them he had put in his bag, and some he had tied on a string. He said: "Some of these I slaughtered, and some died before I could slaughter them." Sayyiduna Fadalah said: "Eat those that you slaughtered, and do not eat those that you did not slaughter."

Makhul said: Sayyiduna Fadalah bin Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him) and Abu Muslim al-Khawlani used to eat game killed with the mi'rad.

Ubayd bin Sa'd reported that Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) struck a hare with a stick, breaking its legs; then he slaughtered it and ate it.

Khusayf said: I asked Sa'id bin Jubayr about hunting with the mi'rad, and he said: "It was not among the arrows of the Muslims; do not eat its game, except if it has pierced the animal's skin, then you may eat it."

Husayn said: I asked Amir about game caught with the mi'rad, and he said: "If its pointed part strikes the game like an arrow, eat it; and if it strikes with its broad side and you cannot slaughter it, do not eat it."

Sa'id saw no harm in game caught with the mi'rad.

Mujahid said: You may not eat game struck by the mi'rad unless it cuts its skin.

Ibrahim said: If the mi'rad does not cut the animal's skin, do not eat its game.

Ibrahim disliked game struck by the mi'rad when the animal's skin was not cut.

Al-Qasim and Salim used to dislike game caught with the mi'rad; however, if there was a chance to slaughter it, they saw no harm in it.

Makhul said: The predecessors used to dislike game caught with the mi'rad. Makhul said: If the mi'rad does not cut the animal's skin, the animal is carrion.

Nafi' said: Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) would not eat game struck by a clay pellet, a stone, or the mi'rad.