Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of One Who Hunts in the Sacred Area in the State of al-’ Ihram َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ ٠َاعِيلَ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ عُقْبَةَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ الْ٠ُغِيرَةِ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ سُئِلَ عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَكَلَ بَيْضَ حَ٠ٌ قَالَ عَلَيْهِ لِكُلِّ بَيْضَةٍ دَ٠َنُهَا سُدُسُ أَوْ رُبُعُ الدِّرْهَ٠َّ قَالَ إِنَّ الدِّ٠َتْهُ لأَكْلِهِ وَهُوَ ٠ٌ وَإِنَّ الْجَزَاءَ لَزِ٠َهُ لأَخْذِهِ بَيْضَ حَ٠2.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-ffusayn from Muhammad ibn ‘Isma‘il from Salih ibn ’Uqbah from al- Harith ibn al-Mughirah who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who while in the state of Ihram eats the egg of pigeons of al-Haram (the sacred area).

He (the Imam) said, ‘He owes one animal offering for each egg as well as the cost of each egg which is about one-sixth or one-fourth of one dirham in a settlement.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘The animal offering is obligatory because of his eating them in the state of Ihram and the penalty of payment of the cost of eggs is because of his taking them in al- Haram (the sacred area).”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/390))