Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard some of thepeople of knowledge say that when falcons, eagles, and hawks and theirlike, understood as trained dogs understood, there was no harm ineating what they had killed in the course of hunting, if the name ofAllah had been mentioned when they were sent out.Malik said,"The best of what I have heard about retrieving game from the falcon'stalons or from the dog's fangs and then waiting until it dies, is thatit is not halal to eat it."Malik said, "The same applies toanything which could have been slaughtered by the hunter when it wasin the talons of the falcon or the fangs of the dog. If the hunterleaves it until the falcon or dog has killed it, it is not halal toeat it either". He continued, "The same thing applies to any game hitby a hunter and caught while still alive, which he neglects toslaughter before it dies."Malik said, "It is generallyagreed among us that it is halal to eat the game that a hunting-dogbelonging to magians hunts or kills, if it is sent out by a muslim andthe animal is trained. There is no harm in it even if the muslim doesnot actually slaughter it.It is the same as a muslim using amagian's knife to slaughter with or using his bow and arrows to shootand kill with. The game he shot and the animal he slaughters arehalal. There is no harm in eating them. If a magian sends out amuslim's hunting dog for game, and it catches it, the game is not tobe eaten unless it is slaughtered by a muslim. That is like a magianusing a muslim's bow and arrow to hunt game with, or like his using amuslim's knife to slaughter with. It is not halal to eat anythingkilled like that.
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Book 25, Hadith 8
Arabic reference: Book 25, Hadith 1060