Dhabihah (halal slaughter)

In fiqh, dhabh contrasts with nahr: nahr is stabbing the upper chest — recommended for camels — while dhabh is for sheep and the like; 'aqr is a fatal wound to an animal wherever it cannot be reached for slaughter, by arrow or by beasts and birds of prey. ¹

The verbal noun of dakkaytu — slaughtering or nahr; in usage, the means that permits eating a wild animal at will, and for the Hanafis the lawful way of preserving the animal's purity and permitting its flesh if edible, or its hide and hair if not. ²

Tadhkiya affects both the edible and the inedible animal; the conditions of the slaughterer and the slaughtered are detailed in the schools' treatments of dhaba'ih. ^{2 3}