i8o H U N T I N G , Book X L V I I ,
S E C T . II.
O f Jhooting Game with an Arrow*.
Game flaih>
by a hunter
(hooting, &c.
a t random, on
hearing a
noife,, is lawful,
provided
the noife pro •
ceed from
game.
I f a perfon hear a noife, and, imagining it to be that of gamej
fhoot an arrow, or let flip his dog or hawk, and in either cafe game
be killed, and it be afterwards difcovered that the noife did actually
proceed from game, it is then lawful to eat the game fo killed by the
arrow, dog, or hawk, whether it were the game of which the noife
was heard,, or not; becaufe the object of the hunter was merely to get
game, of whatever kind. This is according to the Zahir Rawdyet.— .
It is related as an opinion of Aboo Toofqf, that a hog is-in this cafe an
exception;— in other words, if it be afterwards known that the noife
proceeded from a hog, the game killed by the arrow, hawk, or dog,
is not lawful; becaufe a hog is in an exceffive degree, impure;— whence
it is that no part of it is rendered allowable by hunting:— contrary to
other quadrupeds, for of thofe. the fkin, by their being hunted, is
rendered lawful. Z iffer has likewife excepted all thofe animals of
which the flefh is not fit for eating, inafmuch as the hunting of thefe
is not with a view to render them lawful..
Game (hot by
an arrow
aimed at another
animal,
is lawful.
If an arrow be fhot at a bird and hit other game, and the bird fhot
at fly away, without its being known whether it was wild or tame,
the game is in that cafe lawful, becaufe the probability is that the bird
was a wild one. If,, on the contrary, an arrow be fhot at. a camel,
and hit game, and the camel having efcaped, it be not known whether
it was a wild one or ptherwife, the game in that cafe is not lawful,
* T h e title o f this fe&ion,. in the A r a ik veriion, is fimply Rama, fignifying the ufe o f
any mifiile weapon whatever..
becaufe
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becaufe the natural condition o f a camel is that of tamenefs and attachment
to man.— If, on the other hand, an arrow be fhot at fifh or
locufls, and hit game, fuch game is lawful, in the opinion o f Aboo
Yoofaf, according to one tradition, inafmuch as it is game: but according
to another tradition it is unlawful ; becaufe hunting is equivalent
to the performance of Zabbah, which is not requifite with refpeft to
fifhes and locufls.
If a perfon, hearing a noife, and imagining it to be that o f a man,
fhould in confequence fhoot an arrow, and kill game, and it be after-
I wards difcovered that the noife proceeded from the game, in that
I cafe the game fo killed is lawful; becaufe, when it adtually proves
I to be game, the imagination of the perfon who fhoots is of no- eon-
I fequence.
If a hunter, upon fhooting his arrow, repeat the invocation, and
I the arrow wound and kill the game, it is lawful to eat i t ; becaufe
I the fhooting of an arrow along with the invocation, and the wounding
1 of the animal, is equivalent to the performance of Zabbah. Never-
I thelefs, if the animal be taken alive, it is incumbent to flay it by Zab-
I bah, as has been already fet forth in the firfl feftion.
.
If an arrow hit game, and the game fly away with the arrow
I until it difappear, and the hunter go in- fearch of it, and find it dead,
I it is in that cafe lawful to eat it. If, on the contrary, he fhould not
I follow or go in fearch of it, and afterwards happen to find it dead, it is
I not in that cafe lawful; becaufe it is related that the prophet held it
I abominable to eat that game which difappeared from the .fight of the
bowman; and alfo, becaufe there is a poflibility that it may have died,
from fome other caufe;
If the hunter above mentioned find another wound in the game
I hefides that of his arrow, it is not lawful to eat it, notwithflanding he
In v o catio n
muft be made
on the inftant
of (hooting;
but i f the
animal be
taken alive,,
it muft d ill be
(lain by Zabbah.
Game
wounded,
and‘ after-'
wards found
dead by the
perfon who
(hot, is lawful»
unlefs he then
difcover ant-
o ther wound
upon it.