Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulām Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
What is the ruling on eating the meat of an animal that was vowed or sacrificed for other than Allah (ghayr-Allāh)?
Any animal sacrificed for other than Allah is absolutely ḥarām (forbidden)—regardless of whether one intends to eat it or not, and whether it is consumed or not.
"If a person, at the time of slaughtering, says:
‘In the name of Allah and in the name of so-and-so,’
or ‘In the name of Allah and so-and-so,’
or ‘In the name of Allah and Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah,’
then the slaughtered animal becomes ḥarām to eat, because a name other than Allah has been invoked upon it."
Badā’iʿ al-Ṣanā’iʿ by al-Kāsānī: 5/48
al-Hidāyah by al-Marghīnānī: 2/435
① Any animal dedicated to other than Allah, whether by intention or words, is impermissible to consume.
② Saying the name of any person (even a prophet or pious individual) alongside Allah’s name during slaughter renders the meat ḥarām.
③ Such an act falls under “that upon which a name other than Allah has been mentioned,” which the Qur’an has explicitly forbidden.
❖ Question:
What is the ruling on eating the meat of an animal that was vowed or sacrificed for other than Allah (ghayr-Allāh)?
✿ Answer:
Any animal sacrificed for other than Allah is absolutely ḥarām (forbidden)—regardless of whether one intends to eat it or not, and whether it is consumed or not.
❀ Ḥanafī Scholars have stated:
"If a person, at the time of slaughtering, says:
‘In the name of Allah and in the name of so-and-so,’
or ‘In the name of Allah and so-and-so,’
or ‘In the name of Allah and Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah,’
then the slaughtered animal becomes ḥarām to eat, because a name other than Allah has been invoked upon it."
Badā’iʿ al-Ṣanā’iʿ by al-Kāsānī: 5/48 al-Hidāyah by al-Marghīnānī: 2/435
Conclusion:
① Any animal dedicated to other than Allah, whether by intention or words, is impermissible to consume.
② Saying the name of any person (even a prophet or pious individual) alongside Allah’s name during slaughter renders the meat ḥarām.
③ Such an act falls under “that upon which a name other than Allah has been mentioned,” which the Qur’an has explicitly forbidden.
