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The falcon

البازي

A trained hunting bird: the scholars permitted what a trained falcon catches when God's name is uttered at its release, its casting counted as the shot of an arrow and its clutching as the slaughter.

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Muwatta 1423· Muwatta 1424

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Muwatta, Book of Hunting (sayd)· The eagle· The hawk· Muwatta 1423· Muwatta 1424· The birds of the elephant· Anam (livestock: camels, cattle and sheep, and their rulings)· The ant

Sources

  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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Muwatta, Book of Hunting (sayd)

The Book of Hunting, eleventh book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997): 27 reports (1414–1440) in seven babs, PDF pp. 635–644 of volume 1, from game killed by a stone or blunt shaft through trained dogs and birds, sea game, fanged beasts, and hides and carrion.