Not taking Allah's name intentionally while slaughtering
Q: If two people hold the knife while slaughtering and one intentionally does not take Allahs name would the animal be halaal. Would the answer be different if the second person is a child.
Laws pertaining to the Slaughterer
Reciting the Tasmiyyah at the time Slaughter
Q: I am a PhD, Electronics Engineering, student in Torino, Italy. I have a question regarding chicken meat. There is a slaughter house near our city where Arab Muslim use to slaughter chickens. He slaughters the chicken by hand. Usually he has to slaughter approximately 7,500 chickens in 6 hours. He use to say Takbeer randomly, and not on each individual chicken. He says that it is quite difficult for him to say takbeer on each chicken. We had read in one of Mufti Taqi Usmani Sahib's (db) book that according to Imam Shaafaee (Rehmat Ullah Alaih), it is sunnah to read takbeer during slaughtering. This is the only slaughter house in our knowledge where there is no machine slaughtering of chicken. Now my question is that, if person is slaughtering so many chickens, is it a MUST for him to pass takbeer on each individual. Is it possible for us to eat that chicken if that person is slaughtering correctly according to Fiqh Shafaee?
Making a verbal intention when slaughtering the Qurbaani animal
Q: Is it necessary to make a verbal intention or to recite any dua at the time of slaughtering?
Facing the Qiblah at the Time of Slaughter
Q: When slaughtering the animal, should the animal be made to face towards the qiblah or should the person who is slaughtering face towards the qiblah?
Reciting tasmiyah (bismillah) at the time of slaughter
Q: What is the ruling of reading bismillah when slaughtering? Is there any difference in the ruling if it is left out intentionally or unintentionally?
Eating the meat of Christians and Jews
Q: Is it halaal to eat meat of Christians and Jews?