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Summary
Labba, in lexicon, is the middle of the chest and the place where a necklace sits; the plural is labbat or libab. In law it is the place of slaughter on the chest, the hollow between the base of the neck and the chest 1.
The general ruling: slaughter at the labba
Most jurists hold that in ritual slaughter of camels the sunna, when one is able, is to stab at the labba; they cite Abu Hurayra (may God be pleased with him)'s report of a call in Mina that ritual is at the throat and the labba, a report Ibn Abd al-Hadi called very weak 1. For the Hanafis, the real nahr is cutting the veins at the labba; for the Malikis it is a thrust at the labba that leads to death, even without cutting the throat and the two veins 1. The detail is in the entry on slaughter 1.
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Sources
- al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.13566
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islam.museum contributors. “Labba (the place of slaughter on the chest)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/labba-fiqh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.