Those who said: if the blood is made to flow, eat, except with a tooth or bone

The grandfather of Abayah bin Rifa'ah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said: O Messenger of Allah! Tomorrow we will face the enemy and we have no knives with us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Slaughter it and take its life quickly. Whatever makes the blood flow, and the name of Allah was mentioned while making it flow, eat it; but do not use a tooth or a nail. I will tell you about that: the tooth is a bone, and the nail is the knife of the Abyssinians."

Abu Idris said: Some sparrows were brought to Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him), and he slaughtered them with a sliver of reed.

Al-Musayyib bin Rafi' said: Alqamah was asked about slaughtering with a sharp stone and a sliver of reed. He said: There is no harm in it; and he said: Eat (the animal slaughtered with) anything that cuts the jugular veins, except a tooth and a nail.

Ibrahim and al-Sha'bi said: There is no harm in slaughtering with a sliver of reed, or with a reed.

Abu al-Sha'tha' was asked about the instrument with which an animal is slaughtered, and he said: Slaughtering with anything that cuts the jugular veins is permissible.

Al-Hasan said: Eat the animal slaughtered with anything that cuts the jugular veins and makes the blood flow, except a canine tooth, a nail and a bone.

Ja'far bin Maymun said: An animal slaughtered with anything that makes the blood flow and cuts the jugular veins is lawful. However, the earlier generations disliked slaughtering with a tooth or a nail, and called them the knife of the Abyssinians.

Al-Zuhri said: Slaughter is permissible with a sharp-edged iron blade or a sharp-edged stone. Whatever cuts the jugular veins or makes the blood flow, eat the animal slaughtered with it, except a nail and a tooth.

Abu Raja' said: We were travelling a long way through a land of thorny shrubs when a companion of ours caught a hare. He found nothing with which to slaughter it, so he slaughtered it with his nail; then they roasted it in hot sand and ate it. I refused to eat that hare. Later I mentioned this to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and he said: You did very well not to eat it, for it was killed by strangling.

Ibrahim said: Slaughter is not to be done with a tooth, a bone, a nail or a horn.

Sayyiduna Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about an animal slaughtered with a sharp stone or the sharp edge of a stick, and he gave permission for it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him): I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about an animal slaughtered with the sharp edge of a reed, and he said: "Slaughter with anything that cuts the jugular veins is permissible, except a tooth and a nail."

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) was asked: If a man cannot find a knife and slaughters with the sharp edge of a reed, what is the ruling? He said: If it cuts the jugular veins as a knife does, and the one slaughtering mentioned the name of Allah over it, then eat; but if it does not cut the veins and the animal dies, do not eat. I asked him about an animal slaughtered with a sharp stone when a knife cannot be found, and he said: If it cuts the veins, eat; and if it cannot cut the veins and the animal dies, do not eat.

Sayyiduna Muhammad bin Sayfi (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with two hares which I had slaughtered with a sharp stone, and he ordered me to eat them.

Likewise (through another chain).

Ubayd bin Umayr said: You may slaughter an animal with your stone, your iron, your stick and your bone.

Yahya bin Ya'mar said: Eat what is slaughtered with something that cuts, and do not eat what is slaughtered with something that crushes. Eat what is slaughtered with anything that cuts the jugular veins, even if it is the sharp edge of a reed or a splinter of stone.

Tawus said: Slaughter with a stone, the sharp edge of a reed, or any sharp-edged instrument, in such a way that it cuts.

Ibrahim said: A Bedouin came to al-Aswad and said: May I slaughter with a sharp stone? Al-Aswad said: No. When he had left, I said: Is it not permissible to slaughter with a sharp stone? He said: This man wanted to bleed his camel (by opening a vein), and when it died he would say: I slaughtered it.

Ata said: When you slaughter with a stick or a sharp stone and cut the jugular veins, there is no harm in it.

Salamah bin Bishr said: I asked Ikrimah whether it is permissible to slaughter with a sharp stone. He said: When it is sharp-edged and cuts the jugular veins, then eat.

Al-Sha'bi said: Eat what has been slaughtered with a sharp stone.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When you find nothing but a sharp stone, slaughter with it.

Al-Sha'bi said: Eat the animal slaughtered with a blade, a sharp stone, the sharp edge of a reed, a stick, and anything that cuts the jugular veins and makes the blood flow. However, slaughtering with a tooth, a bone or a nail is disliked.

Ata bin Yasar said: A boy from Banu Harithah was herding a milch camel of ours when it began to die, and he had nothing with which to slaughter it. He took a tethering peg and slaughtered it by nahr (stabbing at the base of the neck). Then he asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) about it, and he ordered him to eat it.

Abu Talhah (al-Asadi) said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) when a Bedouin came and said: I was grazing my flock of goats when a wolf came and attacked one of the ewes. It left the ewe completely helpless and pulled out its intestines onto the ground. I broke a stone and shaped it like a knife, and slaughtered the goat with it. Its blood flowed and its veins were cut. Now tell me, what is the ruling on this goat? Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Look at the part of it that touched the ground and cut it off, for it has died, and eat the rest.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Al-asal, that is, spears and arrows, may serve you for slaughtering.

Sayyiduna Ka'b bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A black slave-girl of mine slaughtered a goat with a sharp stone. the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about it, and he ordered that it be eaten.

Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Eat (what is slaughtered with) anything that cuts the veins, except a tooth or a nail.

Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) was asked about an animal slaughtered with a piece of wood. He said: Eat it, as long as (the wood) did not crush it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Slaughter is cutting at the throat and the jugular (labbah).

Dawud bin Abi Asim said: A camel fell into one of the watering holes, and the people could not slaughter it by nahr. They asked Sa'id bin al-Musayyib about it, and he said: There is no place of nahr except the place of nahr of Ibrahim (peace be upon him).

Ata said: There is no nahr except at the place of nahr and the place of slaughter.

Ibn al-Furafisah said: Al-Furafisah was with Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) ordered his crier to announce to the people that nahr is at the jugular (labbah) and the throat, for whoever is able to do it. Leave the animal's body alone until the soul has departed.

Ibn Abi Najih said: A man slaughtered a goat from the back of its neck, and Ata regarded eating it as disliked (makruh).