Among the impurities he enumerates, the author states under item (jīm): “The bone of a carcass, its horn, its claw, its hair, its feathers, its hide, and everything of that kind is pure, for the original ruling concerning all of these is purity, and there is no evidence for impurity.”

I say: On the contrary, proof has indeed been established for the impurity of a carcass’s hide in numerous well-known hadiths, such as the Prophet’s ﷺ saying: idhā dubigha al-ihāb fa-qad ṭahura (when a hide is tanned it becomes pure), recorded by Muslim and others. Additional chains are cited in Ghāyat al-Marām fī Takhrīj Aḥādīth al-Ḥalāl wa-l-Ḥarām, 25–29, and in Nayl al-Awṭār 1/53–54 and elsewhere. I do not know why the author ignored them! What is truly astonishing is that he