The ruling on an animal subjected to intercourse

Question

Question: A man committed zina with a cow. When proof of this was found, on the word of a certain scholar the perpetrator (wati) paid the owner of the cow its price, took the said cow very far away, sold it, and gave its price in charity to the poor and needy. Now the request is: is it permissible in the Sacred Law for the said scholar to give such an instruction or not; is it permissible in the Sacred Law, in the Hanafi school, to sell such a cow and to slaughter it and eat its meat or not; and is selling this…

Answer

[ar]ولا يحد بوطء بهيمة بل يعزر، وتذبح ثم تحرق، ويكره الانتفاع بها حيةً ومية.[/ar] “No hadd is imposed for intercourse with an animal; rather, (the perpetrator) is given taʿzir, and (the animal) is slaughtered and then burned, and benefiting from it, alive or dead, is makruh.” [ar]مجتبى. وفي النهر: الظاهر أنه يطالب ندبًا لقولهم تضمن بالقيمة. (قوله وتذبح وتحرق)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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