Book of Foods and Drinks

740 — The great majority of scholars unanimously agree that every beast of prey possessing canine teeth is unlawful to eat.

741 — All the scholars whose opinions we have preserved likewise concur that anything cut from living livestock counts as carrion, and that eating it is forbidden.

742 — They are unanimous that the flesh of livestock is lawful, this being established by the Quran, the Sunnah, and scholarly consensus.

743 — They also agree unanimously that the meat of birds is lawful.

744 — The scholars are agreed on the permissibility of eating locusts when found dead, save for Mālik ibn Anas and al-Layth ibn Saʿd, who alone declared it unlawful.

745 — They unanimously hold that game from the sea is permissible for both the person in a state of iḥrām and the one who is not.

746 — They unanimously agree that [eating the flesh of] (1) carrion is permissible in cases of necessity.

747 — They unanimously affirm the inviolability of Muslims’ property and blood, except in the circumstances that Allah Himself has made lawful.

748 — They unanimously agree that when two-thirds of pasture growth has been consumed and one-third remains, grazing on it is unobjectionable.