Khinzir (the pig in fiqh)

الخنزير

The pig is forbidden: the community agrees on the prohibition of eating its flesh except in necessity, on the Quranic verse of al-An'am; the Hanbalis give the dog precedence over the pig in necessity, the Malikis give other carrion precedence over pig. ¹² Its impurity: the Hanafis, Shafiis and Hanbalis hold the pig and all its parts, its semen, saliva and sweat impure; the Malikis hold its substance pure while alive. ² Tanning its hide: it is not purified by tanning by agreement; a report from Abu Yusuf says it is; Ibn al-Faras reports a Maliki view that its hide may be used once tanned. ³ Leftover: impure by the Shafiis, Hanafis and Hanbalis, washed seven times for a dog in the Shafii and Hanbali view and three in the Hanafi; the Malikis hold it pure because its saliva is pure. ³⁴ Its hair: most jurists hold it impure and forbid its use; for the Malikis it is pure if cut, not plucked; the Hanafis allow its use by cobblers in necessity. ⁴ Medicine from its parts: forbidden, since medicine from the impure and the forbidden is not allowed. ⁴ Change of substance: the Hanafis, Malikis and a Hanbali report hold that an impure thing purified by transformation, so a pig turned into salt is clean; the Shafiis and Hanbalis say no, except wine and the hide of carrion. ⁴ Value: by agreement the pig is not property of value for a Muslim, so its sale and purchase are invalid. ⁴ A pig may not be sold or bought, on the report of Jabir that God and His Messenger forbade the sale of wine, carrion, pigs and idols; its sale for dirhams or dinars is void for the Hanafis, since it is to be despised, and its sale for goods like cloth is defective, since the cloth is what the contract concerns. ⁵⁶ Non-Muslims may keep pigs by agreement, but may not display them or feed them to a Muslim; if shown, they are destroyed without liability; the Shafiis compel a Christian wife to give up eating it, the Malikis do not. ⁶ Theft or destruction of a pig: no hadd and no liability for a pig of a Muslim; the Hanafis and Malikis make one liable for destroying a dhimmi's pig; the Shafiis and Hanbalis return what was seized and do not compensate its destruction. ⁶⁷ The sea pig: the Malikis take it as the dolphin; al-Shafii allowed it; Abu Hanifa forbade it; Ibn Abi Layla allowed it; al-Layth forbade it if people call it a pig. ⁷