Sayyiduna ‘Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: When you release your (hunting) dog, then take the name of Allah (and release it). Then if it catches your prey and you find it alive, then slaughter it. And if it kills it and does not eat from it, then you may eat it. And if another dog joins your dog and the animal has been killed, then do not eat it, because you do not know which one killed it. And when you shoot an arrow taking the name of Allah, then if your prey (after being struck by the arrow) disappears for a day, and afterwards you find no mark on it except that of your arrow, then if you wish, you may eat it. And if you find it drowned in water, then do not eat it.

Sayyiduna Abu Tha’labah al-Khushani (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked,“O Messenger of Allah! We live in the land of the People of the Book (i.e., Jews or Christians), we eat in their utensils, and our land is a land of hunting. I hunt with my bow, with a trained dog, and with a dog that is not trained. So tell me the method which is lawful for me.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“As for what you mentioned about being in the land of the People of the Book and eating in their utensils, if you can find other utensils, then do not eat in their utensils. But if you cannot find other utensils, then wash them and then eat in them. And as for what you mentioned about living in a land of hunting: whatever (animal) is struck by your arrow and you have mentioned Allah’s name upon it, then eat it. And if you hunt with your trained dog and you have mentioned Allah’s name upon it when sending it, then eat it. And if it is a dog that is not trained and you find the animal alive, then slaughter it and eat it.”

Sayyiduna ‘Adi bin Hatim (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about hunting with a mi‘rad (a stick with a metal tip), so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When it strikes with its iron tip, then eat (the game), but if it strikes with its wooden side and (the animal) dies, then it is waqidh (i.e., mauqudhah, which is killed by a stone or wood and is forbidden in the Noble Qur’an), so do not eat it. And I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about (hunting with) a dog, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When you release your dog, mentioning the name of Allah, then eat (the game), but if the dog eats from the game, then do not eat it, because it hunted for itself. I said: If I find another dog along with my dog, and I do not know which dog caught (the game)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Do not eat it, because you mentioned the name of Allah over your dog, but not over the other dog.

Sayyiduna Abu Tha’labah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Whoever finds his game after three days, if it has not become putrid, then he may eat it.

Narrated by Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever keeps a dog, unless it is for hunting or for guarding livestock, then two qirats of his reward will be reduced every day. (One qirat is said to be a reward equal to the mountain of Uhud.)

Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Whoever keeps a dog (without necessity), except that it is for herding livestock, hunting, or guarding crops, then (otherwise) a qirat (portion) of his reward will be reduced every day. Zuhri (the narrator) said that Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was informed of Abu Huraira’s statement that he also exempted the dog for guarding crops, so he said: May Allah have mercy on Abu Huraira, he was a man of the fields. (But this narration of Zuhri is disconnected, because in Muslim itself, there is a hadith of Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) which allows keeping a dog for guarding crops.)

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded us to kill dogs, to the extent that when a woman would bring her dog from the forest (to Madinah), we would also kill it. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade the killing of dogs and said: "Kill that black dog which has two white spots on its eyes, for it is a devil."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'id bin Jubair that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mughaffal (may Allah be pleased with him) saw a man throwing pebbles near him, so he forbade him and said: Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade throwing pebbles and said: Indeed, it neither hunts game nor kills the enemy, but (when it hits someone) it breaks the tooth or puts out the eye. The narrator said that then Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him throwing pebbles again, so he said: I narrated to you the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) that he forbade it, and I see that you are still throwing pebbles; now I will never speak to you again. (Throwing pebbles, date stones, or anything similar by placing it between two fingers or between the finger and the thumb and flicking it is called "khadhf.")

Hisham bin Zaid bin Anas bin Malik says: I went with my grandfather Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) to the house of Hakam bin Ayyub, and there were some people who had tied a chicken and were shooting arrows at it. So, Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade killing animals after tying them.

Saeed bin Jubair says that Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) passed by some young men of the Quraish who had tied a bird and made it a target, and they were shooting arrows at it. They had an agreement with the owner of the bird that whoever missed the target, the owner would take that arrow. When those people saw Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them), they moved away. Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) said, "Who has done this? May Allah's curse be upon the one who has done this. Indeed, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) cursed the one who makes a living thing a target."