Is it permissible to keep hunting trophies?

Published as Hunting trophies

· 8 Rabiʻ II 1434 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

Is it permissible to keep hunting trophies? (A hunting trophy is an item prepared from the body of a game animal killed by a hunter and kept as a souvenir of the successful hunting expedition. Often, the heads, skins or entire bodies are processed by a taxidermist, although sometimes other body parts such as teeth, tusks or horns are used as the trophies. Such trophies are often displayed in the hunter's home or office, and often in specially designed "trophy rooms," sometimes called "game rooms" or "gun rooms," in which the hunter's weaponry is displayed as well.

Answer

This practise is an incorrect practise, hence one should refrain from it.

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

فتاوى محمودية (19/499)

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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