BOOK OF HUNTING
Chapter: The trained beasts of prey and the sharp weapons with which hunting is lawful, and whose game may be eaten

BOOK OF HUNTING
In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Compassionate. May Allah bless our master Muhammad, his family, and his Companions, and grant them peace.

Chapter: The trained beasts of prey and the sharp weapons with which hunting is lawful, and whose game may be eaten

The predators with which hunting is permitted are: the dog, the cheetah, the goshawk, the shawdhaniq, the rukhm, the eagle, the shāhīn, and every other falcon or bird of prey of similar kind.

It is unlawful to hunt with a beast that has not been trained, or with a trained animal working in partnership with one that is untrained, unless the hunter reaches the quarry in time to carry out its ritual slaughter (dhakāh).

Malik and the majority of the scholars of Medina hold that the fact that a trained animal eats from the game does not render the meat unlawful. Indeed, in their view it is permissible to eat what remains of the game after the trained dog has eaten from it, even if nothing is left but a single morsel.

For them, an animal is deemed “trained” when, once it is unleashed it pursues, when it is checked it refrains, when it is sent it goes, when it is prompted it obeys, when it is spurred on with a shout it hastens—behaviours that must be repeatedly displayed until it is clearly known that it