Is it permissible for the first person to hunt a gazelle with a stick not qualified by Sharia, knowing that it takes time to control it, and one of his companions does not wait this time and hunts a hyena with a stick not qualified by Sharia?
The hunting tool must be sharp, cause blood to flow, and strike the game with its sharp edge; otherwise, the game is not permissible to eat except by ritual slaughter (tazkiyah). The tool is of two types: an inanimate object or an animal. As for the inanimate object, it must have a sharp edge or a pointed tip suitable for cutting or piercing. Tools that kill by blunt force, such as an unsharpened stone, a stick without a pointed end, or an arrow striking with its broad side, are not permissible for hunting, and whatever is killed by them is not lawful except through ritual slaughter. Similarly, if a sharp tool strikes with its unsharpened broad side, the hunted animal is not permissible except through ritual slaughter.
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