For an animal, the text identifies the face and hindquarter (kafal) as the relevant viewed parts.
This provides an ordinary basis for assessing the animal’s appearance and build. Hearing only a description from a distance is not the same kind of inspection.
A subsequently discovered concealed illness concerns the separate defect doctrine, not simply absence of earlier sight.
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Khiyar al-Ru’yah: Inspection, Unauthorized Sale and Options
For an animal, the text identifies the face and hindquarter (kafal) as the relevant viewed parts.
This provides an ordinary basis for assessing the animal’s appearance and build. Hearing only a description from a distance is not the same kind of inspection.
A subsequently discovered concealed illness concerns the separate defect doctrine, not simply absence of earlier sight.