or gored, or partially devoured by a beast of prey—if you reach it while it still possesses stable life and then perform the prescribed slaughter, the meat is lawful. Allah the Exalted says, “Forbidden to you is carrion … the strangled, the beaten, the fallen, the gored, and that which a wild beast has eaten—except what you are able to slaughter” (al-Māʾidah 5:3); that is, anything you overtake alive and subsequently slaughter is not prohibited.

• The strangled (al-munkhanaqa) is an animal whose neck has been tightened by a rope or the like until it chokes.
• The battered (al-mawqūdha) is one that has been struck with a heavy object.
• The fallen (al-mutaraddiya) is one that has tumbled from a height.
• The gored (al-naṭīḥa) is one that another animal has butted with its head.
• “That which a beast of prey has eaten” refers to prey seized by a wolf or similar predator.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH) said regarding the slaughter that suffices for these cases: “Whenever the animal is cut and the normal red blood that issues from a properly slaughtered creature flows out—blood that is not that of carrion—its meat becomes lawful to eat, even if no movement of a limb, eye, tail, or the like is observed afterwards, according to the soundest view.” End quote.

Fourth condition: as the slaughterer moves his hand to draw the blade, he must say, “In the name of Allah,” for the Almighty says, “Do not eat of that over which the name of Allah has not been mentioned, for indeed that is sinful” (al-Anʿām 6:121).

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim said: “There is no doubt that pronouncing the name of Allah over the animal purifies it and drives Satan away from both the slaughterer and the slaughtered. If this invocation is omitted, Satan attaches himself to them, leaving a taint in the animal. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would pronounce the name of Allah whenever he slaughtered, which shows …”