Hadith 4015

(3) The statement: “Forbade, etc.”: This means no animal that hunts with its fangs, excluding camels, or with its claws (talons), excluding doves, is permissible. “Predator” specifies fanged animals, meaning aggressive, attacking, or killing creatures. “Bird” specifies clawed ones, excluding insects (small terrestrial creatures). Domestic donkeys are prohibited, unlike wild ones, which are permissible, as is their milk. In “Al-Durr al-Mukhtar.” In “Radd al-Muhtar,” “Al-Kifayah” states: The basis for prohibition is harmfulness, sometimes via fangs, sometimes claws, or impurity, either inherent, as in insects and vermin, or acquired, as in jallalah (animals fed impurities). The reason is that their natures are reprehensible in Shariah, lest their traits transfer through consumption, prohibiting them to honor humanity, just as permissible foods are allowed to honor them. In “Al-Hidayah,” this hadith includes hyenas and foxes, refuting al-Shafi’i’s permissibility of them. Al-Zayla’i said: The narration permitting their consumption applies to the initial ruling. In “Sharh al-Sunnah,” if an animal’s meat is not permissible, its milk is not, except human milk for infants, and if a bird’s meat is not permissible, its eggs are not. Thus, in “Al-Mirqat.”