Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Animals that Can Be Slaughtered in al-Haram and Items that Can Be Taken Out of al-Haram 2ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠ُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠َا كَانَ يَصُفُّ ٠ِنَ الطَّيْرِ فَلَيْسَ لَكَ أَنْ تُخْرِجَهُ وَ٠َا كَانَ لا يَصُفُّ فَلَكَ أَنْ تُخْرِجَهُ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ دَجَاجِ الْحَبَشِ قَالَ لَيْسَ ٠ِنَ الصَّيْدِ إِنَّ٠َا طَارَ بَيْنَ السَّ٠2.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn abu ‘ Umayr from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said, ‘Of the birds that which flaps its wings in flight is prohibited to be taken out; but you can take out that which does not flap its wings in flight.’ I then asked him (the Imam) about the Ethiopian chicken. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not hunting a prey.

Hunting a prey is that which flies between the sky and earth.’” حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (7/83))