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mean this as an invocation, it is fufficient. But ifhefneeze during
the Zabbah, and exclaims “ Alhumdolillah!’ ’ ( “ praife be to G od!” )
it is not fufficient, (according to the Rawdyet-Saheeb,) becaufe the
exclamation will then be confidered as thanks, and not as the invocation.
T h e method which has frequently prevailed, of faying “ Bifm
“ Illah oo Illah Akbdro," ( “ in the name of G od, and G od is the
“ higheft,” ) during the Zabbah, is copied from Ibn Abbas.
Proper method
o f flay-
T he place for flaying is betwixt the throat and the libba, [the
ing animats, head o f the bread-bo11e, J becaufe the blood freely iflues from a wound
oiven in that place: the Zabbah, therefore, when performed any
where within that fpace, is lawful.
T he veffels which it is requifite to cut in Zabbah are four.;
namely, the Halkoom, Or wind-pipe; the Mirree, or gullet; and'the
Wadijdn, or two jugular veins.-—This is founded on a faying of the
? prophet-. According to Shafei it is fufficient i f m o of thefe veffels
(namely, the wind-pipe and gullet) be cut. According'to Malik, oti
the contrary, three of the four do not fuffice, but it is requifite that
they be all cut. According to Haneefa the animal is lawful where
three o f the four veffels are cut, which ever they may/be. Aboo Toofaf
was alfo at find of this opinion; but he afterwards declared it indif-
penfably requifite that the windpipe and gullet Ihould be cut, and one
of the two blood-veflels; becaufe as the effu'fion of the blood is the
defign of cutting the blood-veffels, one of them may ferve as a fub-
ftitute for the other;— but as the gullet and windpipe, on the contrary,
anfwer two different purpofes, (the one being the channel
o f food, and the other the channel of refpiration, it is requifite therefore
that they be both cut, the one being unfit to ftand in the place
of the other. T h e argument of Haneefa is that the majority repre-
fents the whole in many rules of the l a w ; and when three of the
' four veflels are cut, the majority is cut, and the objeft (which is the
fpeedy effufion of the blood, and deprivation of life) is -effected, fince
8 upon
jlljiy j.
tipbn three o f the above mentioned veffels being cut, the animal cannot
remain alive. If, therefore, to avoid giving additional pain, only
three veflels be cut, it is fufficient.— It is otherwife where only two
arc c u t ; for as, in that cafe, a cutting of the majority, reprefenting
a cutting of the 'Whole, does not exift, it follows that the animal lb
flain is not lawful.—Mohammed is of opinion that the greater part of
each of the/four veffels Ihould be eut, becaufe everyone of them may
be confidered as a principal of itfelf, being feparated from the reft. In
the Jama Sagheer, alfo,- he alleges that i f one h a lf of the wind-pipe,
and one half of each of the blood-veffels, be cut, the animal is not
lawful; but that if the greater part of the wind-pipe, and the greater
pant of each of the blood-veffels be cut, previous to the death of the
animal, it is lawful ;—-and he has not made mention o f any difference
of opinion.
If a man flay an animal with nails, horns, or teeth, it may be
eaten without apprehenfion, provided the nails., horns, or teeth, be
detached from the place in which they grew. T h e a£t, however,
is abominable * , becaufe-it introduces the ufe of human members, and
further, becaufe it is productive of too much pain to the animal, and
-we are directed to perform the Zabbah in fuch a manner as may be
moft eafy to it. Shafei is of opinion that an animal flain in the above
manner is unlawful, and carrion; becaufe the prophet has faid, “ the
“ Z abbah is lawful when performed with any thing that can draw
‘ ‘ blood, or cut the veffels, excepting the teeth and the nails, which are
“ the injlruments o f the A byssinians and alfo, becaufe it is a
thing not allowed,by the l aw any more than if the teeth or nails had
been fixed in the place in which they grew. Our arguments, on the
contrary,; are that the prophet has faid “ Spill the blood with whatever
“ thing it may pieafe t h e e and it is'like wife related that he faid
* HU ^orce °f this term -is explained in a note a little farther on, -| TtsoAbj/fftmans
are heid in great-contempt-by the Mtijfutmam.
It may be
performed
with nails,
horns, or
teeth, (detached
from
their native
place,)
“ Cut