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 "label": {
  "ar": "الأنعام",
  "en": "Anam (livestock: camels, cattle and sheep, and their rulings)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأنعام لغة جمع نعم، وهي الإبل والبقر والغنم، وأكثر ما يقع على الإبل. وعند الفقهاء الأنعام الإبل والبقر والغنم، سميت نعما لكثرة نعم الله فيها بالنمو والولادة واللبن والصوف والوبر والشعر وعموم الانتفاع. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} تجب الزكاة في الأنعام إذا بلغت نصابا باتفاق الفقهاء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} ولا تشرع الهدي والأضحية والعقيقة إلا من الأنعام، والأفضل في الهدي الإبل ثم البقر ثم الغنم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} ويحل ذبحها وأكلها في الحل والحرم وحال الإحرام بخلاف الصيد، والأفضل في تذكيتها النحر في الإبل والذبح في البقر والغنم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}",
  "en": "Anam is lexically the plural of ni'm, meaning camels, cattle and sheep, and most often camels. For the jurists, the anam are camels, cattle and sheep, so called for the abundance of God's favour in them: growth, birth, milk, wool, hair and general benefit. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} Zakat is due on livestock once it reaches the nisab, by agreement of the jurists. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} Only livestock may be offered as hadi, sacrifice or aqiqa, and the best hadi is a camel, then a cow, then a sheep. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508} Livestock may be slaughtered and eaten in the sanctuary and outside it, and during ihram, unlike game; the best method is to slaughter camels by nahr and cattle and sheep by dhabh. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}"
 },
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  "global"
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  "period/prophetic-era"
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  "animals-and-mercy"
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  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «أنعام», pp.3508-3509 of the scan (ends where «انعزال» begins on p.3509). Technical legal entry; summarised at the level of rulings. Qur'an verses referred to by sura and aya only; hadith paraphrased.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "الأنعام لغة جمع نعم، وهي الإبل والبقر والغنم، وأكثر ما يقع على الإبل. وعند الفقهاء الأنعام هي الإبل والبقر والغنم، وسميت نعما لكثرة نعم الله فيها بالنمو والولادة واللبن والصوف والوبر والشعر وعموم الانتفاع. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأحكام",
     "markdown": "- الزكاة: تجب في الأنعام إذا بلغت نصابا باتفاق الفقهاء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}\n- الهدي والأضحية والعقيقة: لا تشرع إلا من الأنعام، والأفضل في الهدي الإبل ثم البقر ثم الغنم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}\n- الذبح والأكل: يحل ذبح الأنعام وأكلها في الحل والحرم وحال الإحرام، بخلاف الصيد الوحشي. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}\n- التذكية: الأفضل في الإبل النحر، وفي البقر والغنم الذبح. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}\n- من أحكامها المتصلة بالزكاة: وسم إبل الصدقة، وخيار الرد بالتصرية عند من يقول به. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anam",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Anam is lexically the plural of ni'm, meaning camels, cattle and sheep, and most often camels. For the jurists it is camels, cattle and sheep, so called for the abundance of God's favour in them: growth, birth, milk, wool, hair and general benefit. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Rulings",
     "markdown": "- Zakat: due on livestock once it reaches the nisab, by agreement of the jurists. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}\n- Hadi, sacrifice and aqiqa: only livestock may be offered; the best hadi is a camel, then a cow, then a sheep. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}\n- Slaughter and eating: livestock may be slaughtered and eaten in the sanctuary, outside it, and in ihram, unlike wild game. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}\n- Method: the best slaughter is nahr for camels and dhabh for cattle and sheep. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}\n- Related zakat matters include branding the camels of charity and the option to return a tasriya animal, held by some jurists. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3509}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anam",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "انعام لغت میں نعم کی جمع ہے، یعنی اونٹ، گائے اور بکری، اور زیادہ تر اونٹ پر بولا جاتا ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "- زکوٰۃ: نصاب کو پہنچنے پر انعام میں واجب ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}\n- ہدی، قربانی اور عقیقہ: صرف انعام میں مشروع ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3508}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/anam",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/awqas",
  "concept/hatma-fiqh",
  "concept/hawam-fiqh",
  "concept/hirr-fiqh",
  "concept/ihab",
  "concept/insects-hasharat",
  "concept/inzaa",
  "concept/kalb-fiqh"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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