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What does "test you through something of the game that your hands and spears [can] reach" (Qur'an 5:94) mean?
First let me address your last paragraph, hunting isn't per se haram, it is only haram to kill for people who wear Ihram (for any of both 'Omrah or hajj) which is quoted in the next verse:
O you ...
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What does "test you through something of the game that your hands and spears [can] reach" (Qur'an 5:94) mean?
To complement @Medi1Saif's answer, this verse was revealed for a specific occasion when on the Day of Hudaybiyyah, the Muslims were on their way to perform 'umra in a state of ihrām.
The test is that ...
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Is there a hadith "whoever shoots at a living creature for sport is cursed" and is it authentic?
Yes, there is an authentic hadith to that effect in Sahih Muslim in the book of hunting, slaughter, and what may be eaten:
حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا هُشَيْمٌ، أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو ...
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Does Allah give the human population exclusive right, to kill and eat any other baser animal life forms?
I don't know what "exclusive right" in the question precisely means, but Allah created other hunting, meat-eating animals besides humans.
So I think it's safe to say humans don't have exclusive ...
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