Likening someone’s food to pork

Question

Question: Zayd, in a state of rage and anger, said to Bakr, “If I eat the food of your house, I shall be eating it as though I were eating swine.” Now, if Zayd repents and eats the food of Bakr’s house, has he incurred the sin of (consuming) the forbidden or not? Explain, and you will be rewarded.

Answer

In the case asked about, if Zayd repents and eats the food of Bakr’s house, it will not be haram: [ar]التعليق بما تسقط حرمته بحال ما كالميتة والخمر والخنزير لا يكون يمينًا[/ar] “Making (something) conditional on that whose prohibition lapses in some circumstance — such as carrion, wine and swine — is not an oath” (al-Bahr, vol. 3, p. 207).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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