What Is The Ruling On Eating the Sacrifices of the People of the Book?

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Also, the questioner Faris Ahmad, who works in Belgium, is asking: What is the ruling on the meat that we eat in western countries which is not slaughtered according to our Shari’ah (Islamic law)? Do we consider them to be from the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) who are upon a religion that (in its origin) is a divine religion or not?

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Sheikh Ibn Al-Uthaymeen
What is apparent from their condition is that they are from the People of the Book, because they attribute themselves either to the religion of ‘Isa (Jesus), peace be upon him, or to the religion of Musa (Moses), peace be upon him. So, they are, considered to be on what is apparent from them, (I.e.,) upon their religion, and whatever they slaughter is halal.   However, on the condition that we don’t know that they slaughter the animal in a non-Islamic way. Meaning, they kill it with stunning/electrocution until it dies without slaughtering it (with a sharp item). This is not permissible, whether it is from a Muslim or from a Jew or Christian. That is because the blood must gush out in the slaughtering process, based on the saying of the Prophet ﷺ: “If the killing tool causes blood to gush out, and if Allah’s Name is mentioned, then eat.”

Additional references

The Series of Fatwas of Noorun Ala Addarb for his eminence the scholar sheikh Muhammad Ibn Salih Ibn Uthaymeen Tape: 3 Fatwa: 8