What is meant by the sinew (al-ʿaṣab) whose utilization has been forbidden, and does this include the other parts of the carrion (maytah)? How can we reconcile the prohibition of benefiting from the hide (ihāb) and the sinew (ʿaṣab) with the hadith: "Indeed, what is forbidden from carrion is its consumption (aklu-hā)"?

Al-Tirmidhi narrated the hadith: "Do not benefit from the carcass, neither from its hide nor from its sinew," and Al-Albani graded it as authentic. Scholars have generally agreed on the impurity of the carcass, but they differed on the impurity of some of its parts, such as the sinew. To reconcile this hadith with the hadith: "Only its eating has been forbidden," scholars resorted to various methods, including: preferring the more authentically narrated hadiths, or reconciling them by interpreting "hide" to mean the skin before tanning. The latter is the more plausible interpretation due to the authenticity of both hadiths, and the principle is that giving effect to speech is better than neglecting it.