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The Prophet of Allah,(PBUH) prohibited beating animals on the face or cauterizing them
Jaabir ibn ‘Abdullaah (a Companion) narrated
that a donkey happened to pass before the Prophet of Allah, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, the face of which had been cauterized, whereupon he said: “Allah has cursed one who has cauterized it [on the face].”1
An-Nawawi said: “As for beating the animal on the face; it is prohibited for living beings whether human beings, donkeys, horses, camels, mules, sheep or other animals. It is an even graver sin when done to a human being, because the face is the place of one’s beauty and the mark of beating would be very obvious on t and thus would shame the person and could negatively affect some of his facul- ties. Cauterization on the face is prohibited by consensus of scholars based on this narration. It is prohibited for humans since it disgraces him and since there is no need for him to have done to him/her, and thus it is not permissible to torture the person by having it done to him/her.”2
المراجع
- Reported by Muslim (2117).
- The explanation of An-Nawawi for the book of Muslim (97/14).
