'Abd Allah ibn Abi Awfa: The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) forbade them entirely because they eat excrement. Agreed upon (7).
Section: Mules are forbidden according to everyone who prohibits domestic donkeys, because they are sired by them, and that which is sired by something takes its ruling regarding prohibition. Likewise, if an offspring is born from between a domestic animal and a wild one, it is forbidden by giving precedence to the prohibition. The sam' (a hybrid canine) produced between a wolf and a hyena is forbidden. Qatadah said: 'The mule is nothing but something from the donkey.' From Jabir, he said: 'We slaughtered horses, mules, and donkeys on the day of Khaybar, then the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) forbade us from mules and donkeys, but he did not forbid us from horses' (8).
Section: The milk of donkeys is forbidden according to the view of the majority of them. 'Ata', Tawus, and al-Zuhri granted permission for it. The first [view] is more correct, because the ruling on milk is the ruling on meat.
1737 - Issue; He said: (And every beast of prey having fangs, which is that which strikes with its fangs and hunts.)
The majority of scholars hold the view that it is forbidden to eat every beast of prey possessing strong fangs with which it attacks and tears apart, except for the hyena. Among them are Malik, al-Shafi'i, Abu Thawr, the scholars of Hadith, and Abu Hanifah and his companions. Al-Sha'bi, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, and some of the companions of Malik said: It is permissible, due to the general nature of the saying of the Exalted: 'Say, I do not find within that which was revealed to me a prohibition for one who would eat it' (1). And His saying
(7) Recorded by al-Bukhari, in: The Chapter on the Battle of Khaybar, from the Book of Military Expeditions. Sahih al-Bukhari 5/173. And by Muslim, in: The Chapter on the prohibition of eating the meat of domestic donkeys, from the Book of Hunting and Sacrifices. Sahih Muslim 3/1538. It was also recorded by Ibn Majah, in: The Chapter on the meat of wild donkeys, from the Book of Sacrifices. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/1064, 1065. And by Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 4/381. (8) Recorded by al-Bukhari, in: The Chapter on the Battle of Khaybar, from the Book of Military Expeditions, and in: The Chapter on the meat of domestic donkeys, from the Book of Sacrifices and Hunting. Sahih al-Bukhari 5/173, 7/123. And by Muslim, in: The Chapter on eating horse meat, from the Book of Hunting and Sacrifices. Sahih Muslim 3/1541. And by Abu Dawud, in: The Chapter on eating horse meat, from the Book of Foods. Sunan Abi Dawud 2/316. And by al-Tirmidhi, in: The Chapter on what has been reported regarding the dislike of every beast with fangs and every bird with talons, from the Chapters on Hunting. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 6/271. And by Ibn Majah, in: The Chapter on the meat of mules, from the Book of Sacrifices. Sunan Ibn Majah 2/1066. And by Imam Ahmad, in: al-Musnad 3/356, 385. (1) Surah al-An'am: 145. It does not appear in the original versions (A) and (B): 'for one who would eat it'.
