Ibn ‘Umar told that he heard God’s messenger prohibit keeping an animal or anything else* waiting to be killed. *The word translated animal is bahima, which indicates a quadruped.“Anything else”means other creatures which are killed for food. The prohibition is said to refer either to keeping such animals without food and drink, or to imprisoning them and using them as targets. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

He told that the Prophet cursed those who used a living creature as a target. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Ibn ‘Abbas reported the Prophet as saying, "Do not take any living creature as a target." Muslim transmitted it.

Jabir told that God’s messenger forbade striking the face and branding on the face. Muslim transmitted it.

He reported the Prophet as saying when an ass which had been branded on its face passed him,“God curse the one who branded it!”Muslim transmitted it.

Anas told that one morning he took ‘Abdallah b. Abu Talha to God’s messenger for him to chew something and rub his palate with it,* and found him with a branding-iron in his hand branding the camels of the sadaqa. *This was a custom for the purpose of acquiring a blessing for children. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Hisham b. Zaid quoted Anas as saying that he went to visit the Prophet when he was in an enclosure and saw him branding sheep. He thought he said it was on their ears. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

‘Adi b. Hatim told that he said,“Tell me, messenger of God; when one of us catches game and has no knife, may he cut its throat with a flint and a splinter of stick?”He replied,“Cause the blood to flow with whatever you take and mention God’s name.”Abu Dawud and Nasa’i transmitted it.

Abul ‘Ushara’* quoted his father as telling that he said,“Is the slaughtering to be done, messenger of God, only in the throat and the upper part of the breast?”He replied,“If you pierced its thigh that would serve you.”*He was Usama b. Malik b. Qahtam (or Qahtam). See Ibn *Abd al-Barr. Isti'ab, p. 246, No. 10S9. Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasa’i, Ibn Majah and Darimi transmitted it. Abu Dawud said this is the way to slaughter an animal which has fallen into a well, and Tirmidhi said it is in case of necessity.

‘Adi b. Hatim reported the Prophet as saying,“Eat whatever is caught for you by a dog or a hawk which you have trained and set off when you have mentioned God’s name.”He asked whether that applied if it killed the animal and he replied,“When it kills it without eating any of it, for it caught it only for you.”Abu Dawud transmitted it.