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B O O K XLVII.
Of H U N T I . N G.
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Q f catching Game with Animals q f the H u n t i n g T r i b e , fuch as
D o g s , H a w k s , - & c .
It is lawful T T is lawful to hunt with a trained dog, a panther*, a hawk, a
alltnimais'of A falcon, and in Ihort with every animal of the hunter tribe that is
the hunter trained. It is related in the Jama Sagheer that game caught with a
* Y u z .— It is an animal of the leop a rd o r ly n x fpecies, hooded and trained to catching
game, nearly on the fame principle as the hawk.
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trained animal of the hunter tribe, whether bird Or be a ft, is lawful;
but that, caught with any other animal it is not lawful, unl&fs when
taken alive, and flain by Zabhah. This doftrine is eftablifiled by a
text of the Koran, in which mention is made of trained dogs. T h e
term Kalb [dog] comprehends, in its general acceptation, every car*
niverous animal, even to a tiger *. It is,- however, related as art
opinion qf Abog Toofaf, that tigers and bears are excepted, as neither
of them hunt for others,— the tiger becaufe Of his ferocity, and the
bear becaufe of his voracioufnefs. Some of the kite tribe have like-
wife been excepted becaufe of their voracioufnefs; arid the {i°g has
been excepted becaufe it is eflential filth, and becaufe it is unlawful to
derive any advantage from it. It is to be obferved that it is a condition
of the lawfulnefs of.game that the animal which takes it be o f the
hunter tribe, and trained; and alfo that the mafter let flip j the animal
in the name of G o d ; for it is fo related in a tradition of Audee, the
fqn of Hätim fä i.
T he fign of a dog being trained is, his.catching game threetimes
without eating i t ; whereas the fign o f a hawk being trained is, merely,
her returning to her mafter, and attending to ftis call. Thefe figns. are
adopted from Abdoolla Ihn Abaß. The body o f a hawk, moreover,
is not capable of enduring blows ; but as, on the contrary, the body
of a dog has this'capability, a dog is therefore to be beaten until he
defift from eating the game. Belides, one fign of being trained, is, to
defift from that which cuftom and habit have made agreeable; and as
it is the cuftom of a hawk to be wild and to fly from man, it follows
that its' paying attention to its mafter’ s call, and fhewing no wildnefs,
is a fign of its being trained. With refpeft to a dog, on the contrary,
Arab. A ß id - , including lions, and every other creature of the feline tribe, except the
panther before mentioned»
t The expreffion, in the original, fignifies to f e n d o f f ,— It here means the a£t-of c a ß in g
the hound or hawk, and hunting them at the game,
Z 2 he
tribe that are
duly trained-
Rules fo r af-
certaining
whether a
dog, &c. be
duly trained.