Consider two animals offered for sale:
1. A hunting animal that can be trained and safely handed over, with an identified lawful use.
2. A dangerous animal with no identified lawful benefit and no practicable safe delivery.
The first can be analysed under Quduri’s general principle. The second raises serious issues of benefit, deliverability and harm.
Opening interactive controls...
Applying the predator-sale rule
Kitab al-Buyu: Animal Sales, Silkworms, Bees and Dhimmi Transactions
Consider two animals offered for sale:
1. A hunting animal that can be trained and safely handed over, with an identified lawful use.
2. A dangerous animal with no identified lawful benefit and no practicable safe delivery.
The first can be analysed under Quduri’s general principle. The second raises serious issues of benefit, deliverability and harm.