فصل [صيد الحرم]

A muḥrim who kills quarry or a beast of prey other than while it attacks—wilfully or in error, by returning upon it after leaving off, initiating [against it], or pointing it out to one who kills it—owes its valuation established by testimony of two just witnesses, and chooses therein among sacrificing a hadī animal, provisioning [the needy], or fasting (as known in the books); should he blemish quarry he is liable for its diminution.

If he removes the barrier to capturing it, he owes the full valuation.

If he breaks a game bird’s egg, he is liable for it and for its dead chick if it had emerged from it.

There is nothing due for killing the harmful crow, kite, snake, scorpion, mouse, rabid dog, wolf, ants, fleas, ticks, bedbugs and flies.

Whoever kills a louse or a locust gives ṣadaqah of a handful of food or a date.

Expiation is obligatory upon eating hunted game whilst compelled by necessity.

Slaughtering other than [wild] quarry is permissible for the muḥrim.

The released carrier pigeon and the tame gazelle are game—unlike the camel that has strayed.

It is lawful for the muḥrim to eat meat of game that a non‑muḥrim hunted and slaughtered for him without a muḥrim intermediary.

In ḥaram game, if a non‑muḥrim slaughters it, he gives its value as charity—nothing beyond that.

Likewise for its herbage and trees that are neither owned nor customarily planted, whilst they are still green and have not dried.

He must not graze [livestock on] the herbage of the ḥaram, nor cut from it anything except idhkhar.

[It is permissible to] uproot truffles.

Whatever obligates one dam on the mufrid obligates two dams on the qirān pilgrim.

If two muḥrims kill game, each owes a separate expiation; if two non‑muḥrims kill ḥaram game, one joint expiation is due upon both.

The muḥrim’s sale of game and its purchase are void.