Is it permissible to eat the flesh of an animal that dies as a result of a car accident or killed by a firearm but whose blood flows?

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An animal that dies on its own is called carrion. Such an animal is not clean; it cannot be eaten. The animals that are choked to death, decapitated, that are hit on the head by a mallet, behind whose ears skewers are jabbed and die like that before they are slaughtered by the throat are regarded as carrion because they have not been slaughtered legitimately by the throat.  

An animal that dies by falling from a high place, by being kicked or butted by an animal, by being hit by a stone or a piece of tree, by being savaged by a wild animal is also regarded as carrion. Therefore, its flesh cannot be eaten.

Accordingly, the flesh of an animal that dies by being hit by a car cannot be eaten. However, if an animal that is essentially halal to eat is hit by a car and is slaughtered by basmala before it dies, it is permissible to eat its flesh according to Abu Hanifa. 

The flesh of an animal that is halal to eat and that is killed by a firearm can be eaten. 

What can be used in hunting?

Hunting is done either by an animal like a trained dog, hawk, leopard, sparrow-hawk and a falcon or by using a wounding or killing weapon, setting a trap, digging a trench, by planting a sharp object like a knife, sword and stake in the ground.

Whether an animal has been trained fully for hunting or not is understood by superiority of understanding or by asking the people who are qualified hunters. For, the period of training for these animals changes based on their state. There is no definite period for it according to Abu Hanifa. According to the other two imams and another narration from Abu Hanifa, the animals with molar tooth are understood to have been trained as follows: when they are released, they run and come immediately after they have been called come.

The animals like a leopard are understood to have been trained as follows: They abandon eating and they come when they are called. For, being predatory and running away by jumping exist in their nature.

It is not permissible to hunt with animals like lions, tigers and bears that are not suitable to be trained for hunting and the animals that are completely dirty like pigs. 

If it is understood that an animal was not trained for hunting enough afterwards, and, for instance, if it is an animal with molar teeth and if it eats from the flesh of the animal it hunts, or, if it is a predatory animal and does not come when it is called, the flesh of the animal that it hunted and will hunt becomes haram to eat. For, it is not permissible to eat the flesh of the animal hunted by an animal that has not been trained fully.

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