The animal killed by a blow (mawquza) and whether it may be eaten

Mawquza is an animal struck by a stick or stone until it dies without slaughter; the Qur'an names it among the forbidden with the strangled, the fallen and the gored. ^{1 2}

The jurists agree it may not be eaten unless slaughtered, citing the list of forbidden animals in the surah of the Table. ^{2 3}

On the hadith of 'Adi ibn Hatim (may God be pleased with him) about the blunt-headed arrow: what is struck with the edge may be eaten, what is struck with the flat is mawquza. The Hanafis, Malikis, Shafi'is and Hanbalis hold that whatever is killed by a blunt stick or stone is mawquza, lawful only if its slaughter is reached. ^{3 4}

Muhammad held that if slaughter is reached before death it may be eaten, and that a movement of the animal suffices. Abu Yusuf and others hold that when the animal reaches a state in which it cannot live, it may be eaten even if slaughtered after dying. ⁴