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What is the meaning of the words: (Bahirah), (Sa'ibah), (Wasilah), and (Haam), mentioned in the verse: "Allah has not appointed (anything in the way of a) Bahirah, nor a Sa'ibah, nor a Wasilah, nor a Haam"?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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The Bahira was a she-camel that would give birth to five offspring. If the fifth was female, they would slit her ear, and she would be forbidden to women. The Sa'ibah was livestock they would set free, so their backs would not be ridden, nor their milk milked. The Wasilah was a ewe that would give birth to seven offspring. If the seventh was male or female, they would say it had "reached its brother," so it would not be slaughtered, and its benefits would be exclusively for men, not women. If it died, men and women would share in it. The Ham was a stallion that sired ten offspring. They would say its back had become "protected," so they would set it free for their idols and nothing would be carried upon it. Allah, the Almighty, refuted them concerning what they had forbidden and what they had permitted, by saying: (Say, "Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females or what is contained within the wombs of the two females?").

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