Striking a Wild Animal on the Head with Iron in Order to Slaughter It

Question

In a slaughterhouse there are many bulls, all of which have to be slaughtered. Some of the bulls fall under the ruling of wild animals: they do not let anyone near them; and many are not wild but docile, and they are slaughtered easily. But those that have turned wild (mutawahhish) do not let anyone come anywhere near them.

Answer

For a Hanafi muqallid, when an explicit specific ruling (juzʾiyya sariha) exists in fiqh, deriving rulings himself from some hadith is contrary to the station of taqlid. The station of the muqallid is that he act upon the rulings his imam derived, keeping the Qurʾan and hadith in view or by ijmaʿ and qiyas, and upon the madhhab he compiled, and that he not venture to derive…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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