1. Catching up with the

dying animal before it dies K one catches up with an animal that is about to die, shortly before it does die, and slaughters it, it is permissible to eat it. The minimum sign that it was alive before being slaughtered is if one limb was seen to move, according to 'Ali He said: "If you find an animal that has been killed by strangling, a violent Mow, a headlong fall, or by the goring of homs, or that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal, but you see it moving a foreleg or hind leg, then slaughter it and eat."'56 The evidence for that is the verse in which AUah (s) says: (Forbidden to you [for food] are: al-Maitah [the dead animals, cattle or beast not slaughtered], blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which Allah's Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering [that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah, or has been slaughtered for idols] and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of homs and that which has been [partly] eaten by a wild animal unless you are able to slaughter it [before its death]) (Quran 5: 3). The point here is that the phrase Bunless you are able to slaughter it [before its deathlb is an exception to what comes before

Xli ibn Abi Trilib it, meaning except that which you are able to catch up with and slaughter (before it dies), in which case it is permissible to eat it.lS7