The Ruling on a Woman's Slaughter

The Ruling on a Woman's Slaughter

Question: Is it permissible for a woman to slaughter an animal? And is it permissible to eat from it?

Answer: It is permissible for a woman to slaughter an animal, the same as a man, as has been confirmed by the Sunnah from the Messenger of Allaah sallallaahu 'alaihi wa sallam. It is permissible to eat from the animal she has slaughtered, if she is a Muslim or one of the People of the Scripture and the animal was slaughtered according to the Islamic Law, even if a man was available to do it for her. It is not a condition for the permissibility of her sacrificial animal that there be no man present.

Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz

Fatawa Islamiyah, Darussalam, vol 6, page 315