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layout: post
title: "Treatment with rock hyrax dung"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Ad-Da'imah, fatwa no. 16685, question 2"
hijri: Muharram 15, 1442
date: 2020/09/3
note: true
lang: en
locale: en
category: [treatments,fatwas]
excerpt: The dung of rock hyrax is used as a cure for many diseases and is sold by spice traders. Is it permissible to use it for treatment?
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Al-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/zayd/
---

### Question:
The dung of rock hyrax is used as a cure for many diseases and is sold by spice traders. Is it permissible to use it for treatment?  

### Answer:
The rock hyrax is lawful and a Muslim is permitted to hunt it and eat its meat. In principle, the animal whose meat is edible, its dung and urine are lawful to use. Therefore, using the dung of rock hyrax for treatment is legally permissible.