What is the ruling on hunting animals such as foxes, elephants, and rhinoceroses to benefit from their hides and tusks for medicinal purposes and adornment, knowing that these acts are internationally criminalized due to their causing the extinction of these animals?

The answer requires highlighting three points:

1. The ruling on hunting: It is originally permissible, but other rulings (disliked, forbidden, recommended, obligatory) may apply depending on the intention and surrounding circumstances. 2. The ruling on hunting endangered animals: Forbidden: If the prohibition is for a legitimate Sharia interest, such as ecological balance or therapeutic use. Not forbidden merely by prohibition: If the prohibition is solely for their preservation without a legitimate Sharia justification. 3. The ruling on benefiting from the hides and bones of rhinoceroses, foxes, and elephants: Rhinoceros: Its meat is permissible to eat because it is an herbivore and does not have fangs for predation. Therefore, there is no harm in benefiting from its hide, horn, teeth, and all its bones if ritually slaughtered (dhakkā). Fox and Elephant: If their meat is deemed permissible to eat, then it is permissible to benefit from their hides and bones if ritually slaughtered. If their meat is deemed forbidden to eat, then only the bones may be used, while the hide may not be used unless it is tanned.

General Notes:

If the animal's meat is not permissible to eat (either because it is generally impermissible or because it was not ritually slaughtered), then its tanned hide, horn, tusk, or any of its bones may not be used for food or drink. Benefiting from hides and tusks is permissible for ordinary use. However, their use in magic and sorcery is forbidden.