Ques: A brother found this version of a famous hadith: take note of the position of the square bracket:
"Two types of dead meat and two types of blood have been made lawful for your consumption [without being slaughtered]: fish and locust, liver and spleen".
(Reported by Ahmad and Ibn Majah)
So, I've the impression there is a misunderstanding by who put the brackest:
I had understood this hadith as stating that for each of the two general prohibitions (that of dead animal meat, and that of blood consumption) there are two exceptions:
-fish and locust are the exception to the consumption of dead animal meat (so it's not necessary to slaughter fish and locustes, but they can be eaten also if found dead), and
-liver and spleen are the exception to the prohibition of blood consumption (not the exception to the necessity of the animal being islamically slaughtered).
In fact in another place I've found the same hadith translated in this way:
Sayyiduna Abd Allah ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him eternal peace) said: "Two types of dead meat and two types of blood have been made lawful for our consumption: The two dead meats are: fish and locust, and the two types of blood are: liver and spleen."
(Sunan Abu Dawud, Musnad Ahmad, 2/97 and Sunan Ibn Majah, no: 3314)
Well, those brackets in the first version of this hadith give it another meaning , that is: the liver and spleen of whatever halal animal can be eaten regardless of it having been islamically slaughter!
So, I'd like to have a confirmation about my understanding that liver and spleen are the exception to the prohibition of blood consumption (not the exception to the necessity of the animal being islamically slaughtered).
Or is it really true that the liver and spleen of whatever halal animal can be eaten regardless of it having been islamically slaughter?!
Ans: Assalamu Alaikum.
In Musnad Ahmad:
In Sunan Ibn Majah:
All three hadith states that the 2nd translation you gave is correct. "Two types of dead meat and two types of blood have been made lawful for our consumption: The two dead meats are: fish and locust, and the two types of blood are: liver and spleen."
May be the first one was like لف و نشر مرتب. Which means, first to cite the name of types, then to cite their sections orderly. So, in "Two types of dead meat and two types of blood have been made lawful for your consumption [without being slaughtered]: fish and locust, liver and spleen", firstly the two types were cited. 1. Dead meat. 2. Blood.
Then the sections were cited orderly. So the first section refers to the first type. i.e. fish and locust refer to Dead meat. And the second to the second. i.e. Liver and spleen refer to Blood.
So, we can say that both r correct. But the second one is clear and apparent. And so, Its not correct that the liver and spleen of whatever halal animal can be eaten regardless of it having been islamically slaughter.
And Allah knows best.
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Answered by Yousuf
Sunniforum, 25 Mar '09
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