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Authentic hadithUpdated on 24 September 2026 at 12:34 AM
📖 1 min readعن أبي سعيد قال: سألْنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم عن الجَنِينِ فقال: «كُلُوهُ إنْ شِئْتُم، فإنَّ ذَكاتَه، ذَكاةُ أُمِّهِ».
The fetus of a slaughtered animal, if taken out dead, is lawful to eat. The slaughtering of the mother is enough to make it lawful to eat, for the fetus was part of the animal when it was slaughtered. Being so, the parts of the animals do not require independent slaughtering.
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