Question:
What is the ruling on eating the meat of horses and the meat of hyenas?
Answer:
The meat of horses is permissible, the Prophet, peace and prayer are upon him, allowed this; and also the meat of hyena has been made permissible by a text from the Prophet peace and prayer are upon him. Horse and hyena meat are permissible for us as opposed to the meat of wolves, lion, tigers, and dogs, which is haram.
And horse meat is permissible by a text from the Prophet peace and prayer are upon as comes by way of Jabir ibn Abdullah Al Ansaaree may Allah be pleased with him, he said, ‘The Prophet forbade the people from eating their donkeys and allowed them to eat the meat of horses.’
And Asma the daughter of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them said, ‘We slaughtered, during the time of the Prophet peace and prayer are upon him, a horse, so we ate it while we were in Medina. It authenticity has been agreed upon; therefore horse and hyena are permissible for us according to what is most correct.
As for the people’s donkey and the mules then they are haram, the donkeys and mule are haram also the beast of prey such as wolves, tigers, lions, dogs and cats, all of them are haram to eat.
Fatwa by Sheikh Bin Baz
Translated by Rasheed Barbee
Link: http://www.bin-baz.org.sa/RecDisplay.asp?f=n-01-1408-0100006.htm
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