inherit from a Muslim.” Al-Bukhari and Muslim—and others—have transmitted this ḥadīth.¹
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He is barred from entering Mecca and its Sacred Precinct, for the Most High says: “O you who believe, the polytheists are indeed impure, so let them not come near the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs” (Q 9:28).
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The meat of any livestock—camels, cattle, sheep, and the like—that he slaughters is unlawful, because one of the conditions for lawful slaughter is that the slaughterer be a Muslim or a person of Scripture, namely a Jew or a Christian. As for the apostate, the idolater, the Magian, and those of similar ilk, whatever they slaughter is impermissible.
Al-Khāzin said in his Tafsīr: “There is unanimous agreement on the prohibition of the animals slaughtered by the Magians and by every other group of idolaters—whether the pagan Arabs, the worshippers of idols, or those who possess no revealed book.”
Imam Aḥmad remarked: “I do not know of anyone who holds otherwise, except a person of innovation.”