Prohibited Parts of Sacrificial Animals

Question

What are the prohibited parts of a sacrificial animal that are forbidden to eat?

Answer 1

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may God protect him):

The following parts of the sacrificial animal (in livestock) are prohibited: blood, dung, spleen, penis, vagina, testicles, bladder, gallbladder, marrow (the white thread), glands (which are any round nodes in the body), placenta (the place of the fetus), and the two al-bawain (two broad yellow cords extending along the back from the neck to the tail), and the brain grain (a small grain in the center of the brain the size of a chickpea that leans towards gray), and the pupil of the eye (not the rest of the eye). The heart, liver, stomach, intestines, cartilage, and muscles are permissible to eat, although the kidneys, heart's ears, and veins are disliked. The skin and bones may be eaten as long as they do not cause harm.

Source: Fiqh al-Wali: Rules of Meats

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may God protect him):

From the permissible animal, even if it has been slaughtered, several things are prohibited, which are as follows:

Blood, dung, penis, vagina (both external and internal), placenta (the place of the fetus), glands (any round node in the body resembling a hazelnut), testicles, brain grain (a grain the size of a chickpea in the center of the brain), marrow (a white thread like the brain in the center of the vertebrae), and the two al-bawain (as a precaution), which are two cords extending along the back from the neck to the tail, gallbladder, spleen, bladder, and the pupil of the eye (the part that sees, not the whole eye).

This applies to animals other than birds, fish, and locusts. As for birds, the mentioned prohibitions (blood and dung) apply to them, while the prohibition of other parts is based on obligatory precaution. The prohibition of dung and blood from fish and dung from locusts is also established, but other parts mentioned are not prohibited in them.

Source: Minhaj al-Salihin, Vol. 3, Foods and Drinks, Birds, M 900

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