Shariid (a strayed animal, and its sale, hire and slaughter)

In language shariid is a strayed thing: a camel that bolts and runs off. The word is used of animals, while aabiq (the runaway) is used of people. The technical sense does not depart from the lexical one. ¹

The jurists agree that selling a strayed camel, or any thing the seller cannot hand over, is not lawful, on the Prophet ﷺ's prohibition of uncertain sales, since a sale is the transfer of disposal, which cannot be achieved for what cannot be delivered. A strayed camel may not be hired out for the same uncertainty and inability to deliver. ¹

Most jurists (Hanafis, Shafi'is, Hanbalis) hold that when a tame lawful animal goes wild and cannot be slaughtered at the usual place, as a strayed camel does, every part of its body is a place of slaughter; a wound anywhere that brings death makes it lawful. They cite the report of Rafi' ibn Khadij about a camel that bolted and was struck by an arrow, and the Prophet's words that such animals have wild ways like wild game. ^{1 2} Going wild does not mean merely breaking loose: if it can be caught up with by running or by help of someone who holds it, it is not wild, and it may be lawful only by slaughter at the throat. ² Some Hanafis distinguish a sheep that strays in the desert, which may be killed by any wound out of necessity, from one that strays in a town, which may not be killed that way since its usual slaughter is not impossible. ² The Malikis, Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib, al-Layth ibn Sa'd and Rabi'a hold that a strayed camel, cow, sheep or other animal is lawful only if slaughtered at the usual place, the throat or the base of the neck, and straying does not change the place of slaughter, on the saying that slaughter is in the throat and the base of the neck, a report weakened in its chain by Ibn Abd al-Hadi. ² See the entries on slaughter, lawful slaughter and hunting. ²