from the quarry toward a carcass it has noticed, and later, of its own accord and without any prompting from its handler, rushes back after the game some time later, nothing it then kills may be eaten. If its diversion is only momentary—no more than a brief turn while still tracking the prey—that causes no harm.

Should the dog slip away in pursuit of game and its owner afterwards whistles, calls, or scolds it, the animal it takes may not be eaten. Some have said, however, that if he calls it after it has bolted, pronounces Allah’s name, and the dog responds, the quarry is lawful; the first view is that of Mālik.

Whoever sees something he assumes to be a pig or another predator, shoots at it on that assumption, and kills it, only to find that it was lawful game, may not eat it.

If a hunter pulls a living animal from the dogs’ mouths after they have wounded it, but—through no fault of his own—fails to slaughter it before it dies, it is still lawful to eat. If he is negligent in performing the slaughter, the meat is not lawful.

Game taken with a poisoned arrow may not be eaten unless the arrow itself killed the animal by piercing its vital organs. If the arrow reached the vital points before the poison spread, eating the meat is permissible, though disliked because of the danger of the toxin. Whenever there is doubt, one must refrain; it is lawful only when it is certain that the arrow, not the poison, caused the death.

Game on which the dogs have neither bitten nor inflicted a wound is not to be eaten. Some, however, allow it if the animal died from the force of the dog’s impact even without a bite or wound; this is the opinion of Ashhab, and a similar report exists from Mālik.

When a camel bolts and cannot be caught so that it may be ritually slaughtered—whether by the customary stab in the pit of the neck (nahr) or by cutting the throat between the throat and the upper chest—its meat is not lawful according to Mālik and his companions. The other scholars maintain that when a domesticated animal turns wild, flees, and cannot be subdued, it may be killed with the same weapons used for game.

If two men release two dogs and the dogs work together in killing the quarry, the game belongs to both hunters. If one dog reaches the vital organs and kills the animal before the other arrives, it belongs solely to the hunter whose dog made the kill.

If a man captures game and it then escapes from him