1162 – ʿAdiyy ibn Ḥātim (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, “When you release your dog, pronounce the name of Allah over it. If it seizes the game for you and you reach it while it is still alive, slaughter it. If you reach it after it has died and the dog has not eaten from it, then eat it. But if you find another dog together with yours and the animal has been killed, do not eat, for you do not know which of the two dogs killed it. And when you shoot with your arrow, mention the name of Allah, the Exalted. If the quarry is lost from your sight for a day and, on retrieving it, you find only the mark of your arrow, then eat of it if you wish. But if you find it drowned in water, do not eat.” Agreed upon, and this is Muslim’s wording. (1)

1163 – ʿAdiyy (may Allah be pleased with him) also reported: I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about hunting with the miʿrāḍ, and he said, “If you strike the animal with its sharp point, then eat; but if you strike with its broad side and it dies, it is waqīdh (bludgeoned), so do not eat.” Related by al-Bukhārī. (2)

Vocabulary of the ḥadith:
• miʿrāḍ: a stick whose tip is fitted with a piece of iron that the hunter throws; whatever is struck with its sharp point may be eaten, whereas whatever is struck with any other part is waqīdh and may not be eaten.
• ḥaddihi (“its sharp edge”): the ḥadd of something is its thin, fine, cutting tip.
• ʿarḍihi (“its broad side”): ʿarḍ, with a fatḥah on the ʿayn and a quiescent rāʾ, means the side or flank of a thing.