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Natiha (gored animal)

النَّطِيحَة

Natiha is an animal gored to death by another's horns; a gored animal is carrion, and every gored animal is carrion but not the reverse. 1 It shares with the strangled, struck and fallen animals the status of carrion dead without lawful slaughter. 1 2 It is unclean and its eating is forbidden by the verse of the Ma'ida surah, except what is reached with a settled life and lawfully slaughtered. 2

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The Prophetic Era
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Halal and haram

Summary

Natiha is an animal gored to death by another's horns. It shares with strangled, struck and fallen animals the status of carrion dead without lawful slaughter, and every gored animal is carrion but not the reverse. 1

Ruling

The gored animal is carrion, unclean and forbidden to eat by the verse of the Ma'ida surah. The exception is an animal reached with a settled life and lawfully slaughtered, by cutting the windpipe and gullet with a sharp instrument. 2 Carrion is treated in full under its own entry. 2

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Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.15761
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.15762
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Akl (eating: lawful food and manners)

Eating is part of the faith: forbidden food is warned against, and the forbidden foods are known from the text and the Sunna. Eating has rulings that vary by need: obligatory up to what keeps life, required for prayer and fasting, recommended for earning and learning, permitted up to satiety, and forbidden beyond it. It is recommended for the one who sacrifices to eat from his sacrifice; the jurists differ on a sacrifice that was vowed. For expiations the Shafi'is and Hanbalis require transfer of ownership, while the Hanafis accept enabling the needy to eat. Manners include saying the basmala, eating with the right hand and from what is nearest, not blaming food, and not reclining while eating. A person in necessity may eat the forbidden only enough to keep alive. Eating from another's orchard or field without leave is allowed only under conditions.