Slaughter: if any part of it moves, eat

Abu Murrah, the freed slave of Aqil bin Abi Talib, said: I came home, and my family had a goat that seemed to be dead. I slaughtered it and it moved. I mentioned the whole matter to Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he ordered me to eat that goat.

He said: Then I went to Sayyiduna Zayd bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) and mentioned its matter to him, and he said: A dead animal also moves.

Ubayd bin Umayr said about a slaughtered animal: If it wags its tail, or blinks its eye, or moves, then it is lawful.

Tawus said: There is no harm in it.

Ata said: If the slaughtered animal moved its tail, eye or leg after being slaughtered, it is lawful.

Al-Hasan (al-Basri) said: If the slaughtered animal moved its eye or its leg, it is lawful.

Al-Sabbah bin Thabit said: I asked Amir bin Abdah: A duck fell into a well, and the people took it out while there was still a trace of life in it; what is the ruling on it? He said: Slaughter it and eat it.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If the slaughtered animal moved its eye, or its tail, or its leg, then eat it.

Al-Dahhak said: If you slaughter an animal in a state where it was moving its eye or its tail, it is lawful. If it was slaughtered but it moved neither its eye nor its tail, then it is carrion and unlawful.

Al-Nu'man bin Ali said: Sa'id bin Jubayr passed by an ostrich that had been thrown onto a rubbish heap and was moving. Sa'id bin Jubayr asked: What is this? The people said: We fear that it may be mawqudhah (an animal killed by a blow). Sa'id said: You almost left it to Satan. The mawqudhah is only that which has died from the blow.

Abu Mijlaz said: The early generations regarded the Qur'anic phrase "except what you have slaughtered" as an exception covering animals that were strangled, dead, or killed by falling. Then Allah Almighty made everything unlawful except what has been slaughtered.