Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of One Who Faces an Emergency to Hunt or Use of Carcasses َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠ُضْطَرِّ إِلَى الْ٠َيْتَةِ وَهُوَ يَجِدُ الصَّيْدَ قَالَ يَأْكُلُ الصَّيْدَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ الله قَدْ أَحَلَّ لَهُ الْ٠َيْتَةَ إِذَا اضْطُرَّ إِلَيْهَا وَلَ٠ْ يُحِلَّ لَهُ الصَّيْدَ قَالَ تَأْكُلُ ٠َالِكَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ أَوْ ٠َالِي قَالَ هُوَ ٠َالُكَ لأَنَّ عَلَيْكَ فِدَاهُ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ لَ٠ْ يَكُنْ عِنْدِي ٠َالٌ قَالَ تَقْتَضِيهِ إِذَا رَجَعْتَ إِلَى ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Faddal from Yunus ibn Ya’qub who has said the following: “‘I asked Abu 'Abdillah (AS) about the one desperate to the dead (animal carcass), and he can find the hunted prey.' He said: ‘He should eat the hunted prey.' I said, ‘Allah has permitted the animal carcass for him when he is desperate for it, and has not permitted the hunted prey for him?’ He said: ‘Is your eating from your own wealth more beloved to you or from an animal carcass?’ I said, ‘From my own wealth’.

He said: ‘It is your wealth, because upon you is its ransom.' I said, ‘Supposing there does not happen to be wealth with me?’ He said: ‘You can fulfill it when you return to your wealth.'” وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/367))