Eating the Game of a Trained Dog Is Permissible

Question

It has become known that a trained dog is one which, even after being released at game, comes back when its owner calls it back and does not eat the game, but brings it to the owner. If such a trained dog catches and brings game, for example a hare, and this dog was released after saying “bismillah, Allahu akbar,” and the hare is wounded by the dog’s catching it and blood begins to flow — the respected Allah De says that if the hare is alive, the owner should slaughter it, and if it has died, it is still halal and…

Answer

What the respected Allah De said on this matter is correct. In Surah al-Ma’ida it is stated: [ar]يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ مَاذَآ أُحِلَّ لَهُمْ ۖ قُلْ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ ٱلطَّيِّبَـٰتُ ۙ وَمَا عَلَّمْتُم مِّنَ ٱلْجَوَارِحِ … إِلَى قَوْلِهِ … فَكُلُوا۟ مِمَّآ أَمْسَكْنَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَٱذْكُرُوا۟ ٱسْمَ ٱللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ ۖ الآية[/ar] “They ask you what has been made lawful for them.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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