Chapter on what the pilgrim in ihram is forbidden to do with regard to game

A pilgrim in the state of consecration may not kill any game, slaughter it, or eat any part of it if he himself hunted it or if it was hunted for his sake. Should he eat game that was hunted specifically for him, the expiation is recommended; but for anyone who kills the animal—whether he then eats from it or not—the expiation is obligatory. Likewise, if someone eats game that the pilgrim himself hunted, an expiation is due, and according to Mālik that meat counts as carrion.

Game does not become lawful for the muhrim until he has performed ṭawāf al-ifāḍah; if he is performing ʿumrah, it is not lawful until he has completed his saʿy. If he hunts before that, he must pay the expiation. He is not allowed to purchase game, to acquire ownership of it, or to keep it in his hand. If he enters ihram while already owning game, his ownership is not annulled, yet he may not slaughter it until he has left the state of consecration. From the moment he enters ihram he may neither hold it in his hand nor travel with it. If he does take it in hand, he must release it; if he fails to release it until it dies in his grasp, he must pay its expiation. If he releases it, nothing is due.

If a pilgrim in ihram buys a bird and clips its wing feathers, he must set it free in a place where its plumage can grow back. If he does that, no liability rests on him; but if the feathers do not regrow and the bird fails to mature, he must pay the expiation.

If a muhrim struggles with someone not in ihram over game the latter is holding, intending to release it, and the animal dies, whichever of them was holding it at the moment of death must pay the expiation. If both parties were in ihram, each of them must offer an expiation.