Forbidding Eating the Jallalah' or Drinking its Milk

'Abdullâh Ibn 'Umar narrated, “The Prophet forbade eating the meat or drinking the milk of the Jallalah.

Explanation of the Hadîth

“Jallâlah” is a term, which refers to an animal that is in the habit of eating Najâsahi and filthy stuff such as the excrements of other animals. The rest of this hadîth recommends that the Jallâlah is to be quarantined and fed a pure, clean and normal diet for a period of time-depending on Jallâlah refers to an animal, which usually eats filthy things including human excrements, waste or flesh of other animals, dead animals and the like.
Reported by Imâm at-Tirmidhî in his "Sunnan", "Book of Foods” hadîth no. 1824, and Abû Dâwîd in his “Sunnan", hadîth no. 3785-3787.
Najâsah refers to all impurities, which Muslims must avoid and cleanse themselves of, should it contaminate their clothes, body, etc. as the presence of such impurity renders their prayer invalid. These impurities include urine, feces, blood, etc.
the animal's size and weight-enough to clear its body from all the filth it had eaten. In this case, the animal will go back to its normal clean and pure state, which makes it edible, palatable and harmless to humans.

Muslim jurists have differed on how strong the prohibition in the hadîth is. Some said it is Harâm (unlawful) to eat such animals, while others are of the opinion that it is only strongly undesirable to eat it. It seems though that it is closer to being totally prohibited, “Harâm”, except in cases of dire necessity. Moreover, some jurists are of the opinion that it is even prohibited to ride the Jallâlah lest it may contaminate the rider with its impure sweat. But the recommended opinion is that it is only undesirable to ride it, in order to avoid its repulsive stench.

Disastrous consequences occurred at our time, when man forced animals to eat Najâsah and filth, which led to its being affected with an incurable fatal disease, this disease was transmitted to man respectively via consumption of infected meat and was also transmitted to the animal's offspring genetically. This fatal disease was even transmitted to domestic and wild animals through infected food or animals. The reason behind all this was man's greediness for fast profit, not giving any consideration to the consequences of going against the natural laws of the animals ordained by Allâh the Almighty.

It was in the late years of the 20th century that some devious humans thought of feeding sheep, cattle and chicken with the waste tissue of slaughtering such as blood, fat, viscera and bone powder, in addition to various hormones, hoping to increase their production of meat, milk and eggs.

In November 1986, Britain and several other European countries were struck by the outbreak of several incurable diseases among the animals, which were fed on animal protein, while Allâh the Almighty, created them naturally to eat herbs, grains and all sorts of vegetable feed.
Gnu ui iii 111us uusigrivus vi uii mus visu vinu iuiu us "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)", also known as "Mad Cow Disease." This neurodegenerative disease attacks the animal brain, turning it into a spongy deteriorating porous tissue, causing the animal to become progressively uncoordinated due to loss of control over itself. The animal then goes into severe fits of aggression and violent rage and finally dies.

It was proved that this disease is transmitted to humans who consume meat and milk of the infected animals and their offspring, which made the authorities in Europe in 1988 prohibit the use of animal protein in feeding cattle, sheep and chicken. They also executed all the infected animals, which led to great financial loss. In the period between November 1986 when the disease was diagnosed for the first time-until April 1991 more than 26,000 cows were executed in Britain only.

The cause of this dangerous disease has not been fully recognized until now, but it is believed to be an unusual virus, which is highly resistant to all forms of antibiotics, heat and radiation. Scientists could not see it even under the electronic microscope, or detect it with antibodies, as it does not stimulate any detectable immune or inflammatory response in the infected animals.
One here may wonder how did the Prophet long time ago, living in an environment that had no knowledge or scientific means, reach such a conclusion. This is a clear proof that he is a true Prophet that has been revealed to.