Points derived from the ḥadith
1- Licking one’s fingers—and, by the same token, the bowl—seeks the blessing contained in the food, for one does not know whether that blessing lies at its beginning or at its end. It also magnifies Allah’s favors, great and small alike, and keeps one from showing haughtiness toward them.
2- The ḥadith teaches that Allah’s blessings must be safeguarded so that they do not fall into filth or any impure place, nor be treated with contempt.

Chapter on Hunting
The Arabic word ṣayd (hunting) can denote the verbal noun, meaning the act of pursuing game, and it can denote the passive sense, the quarry itself. Ibn Fāris says that its root conveys “mounting a thing head-on and moving forward without looking aside or turning.” The term was derived from this idea because the hunter passes swiftly without veering off.

Legal definition: capturing a wild animal that is lawful to eat, untamed by nature, not owned, and not otherwise within one’s reach.

The permissibility of hunting rests on the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and consensus.
• The Qur’an: “When you have completed your pilgrimage, then hunt” (5:2); “The game of the sea has been made lawful for you” (5:96), and other verses.
• The Sunnah: well-known reports, including the aḥādīth that follow in this chapter.
• The scholars unanimously agree upon it.

Hunting is a favored pastime; the Arabs were passionate about it and regarded it as one of the pleasures over which their kings and chieftains competed. Yet it must not be turned into mere amusement, for pursuing it for that purpose alone squanders the precious hours of life through which obedience to Allah is attained and benefit accrues to individuals and society. To take an animal’s life without any legitimate aim is likewise impermissible, for it is destruction without right, even though Allah has placed in its continued existence many benefits and uses.

Hadith 1
Abū Thaʿlabah al-Khushani (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, we live in the land of a people who are People of the Book. May we eat from their vessels? We are also in a land of game; I hunt with my bow, with my dog that is untrained, and with my trained dog. What is lawful for me?’
He replied, ‘As for what you mentioned about the vessels of the People of the Book: if you can find other vessels, then do not eat from theirs; but if you find none, wash them and eat from them. Whatever you hunt with your bow, having pronounced Allah’s name over it, then eat it; and whatever you hunt with your trained dog, having pronounced Allah’s name over it …’”} } (The ḥadith continues.)