The Ruling on the Slaughtered Animal of the People of the Book According to Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī(An Analytical Fiqh Reading)

This study addresses the issue of the slaughter of the People of the Book  in the jurisprudence attributed to Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī, as one of the issues where the presentation differed across the early Zaydī sources. The juristic compilations demonstrate the existence of two distinct juristic paths in addressing this matter: one path tends toward prohibition, and another and another presents narratives implying permissibility, conditioned on the pronouncement of God's Name during the act. The study proceeds by collecting the narratives found in the Zaydī sources, analyzing them according to the methodologies of Fiqh study, connecting them to their Qur'anic and Ḥadīth contexts, and comparing them to what is presented in the other schools of jurisprudence. The research also addresses the position of this issue within the structure of Zaydī independent legal reasoning and how the juristic compilations dealt with the discrepancy in the narratives, without attempting to definitively attribute a specific opinion to Imām Zayd himself, except to the extent permitted by the available evidence. The study seeks to offer a descriptive and analytical reading of how this ruling took shape within the school, while highlighting the limits of divergence between the narratives, without favoring or preempting either of the two directions