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Is it permissible to wear a natural wool coat (farwah) imported from an unknown source, if it is not known whether the wool came from an animal slaughtered according to Islamic law or not?

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Wearing the fur is permissible even if the animal was not ritually slaughtered, because the wool and hair of a dead animal are pure according to the majority of jurists. This is the view of the Hanafis, Malikis, and Hanbalis, and one opinion among the Shafi'is. Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah preferred the view that all of them are pure (the bones, horns, hooves, hair, feathers, and fur of a dead animal), because their original state is purity, and because they are among the good things and not among the prohibited impure things.

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