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The eagle

العقاب

Malik counted it among the trained birds whose catch is lawful when God's name is uttered at release — the king of the air in the Arabic sources and the noblest of the raptors.

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Muwatta 1423

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The falcon· The hawk· Muwatta, Book of Hunting (sayd)· Muwatta 1423· The birds of the elephant· Anam (livestock: camels, cattle and sheep, and their rulings)· The ant· The apes

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  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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The falcon

A trained hunting bird: the scholars permitted what a trained falcon catches when God's name is uttered at its release, its casting counted as the shot of an arrow and its clutching as the slaughter.