Is it permissible to weigh chicken and purchase it before slaughtering it?
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It is permissible to weigh live chickens before purchasing them and to buy them by weight, because the general principle is that transactions between Muslims are permissible unless forbidden by Islamic law, and there is no legal impediment that prevents this.
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