Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of Sacrificial Animal Destroyed Before Offering and Using Its Meat for Food َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنِ ابْنِ ٠ُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى كَبْشاً فَهَلَكَ ٠ِنْهُ قَالَ يَشْتَرِي ٠َكَانَهُ آخَرَ قُلْتُ فَإِنِ اشْتَرَى ٠َكَانَهُ آخَرَ ثُ٠َّ وَجَدَ الأَوَّلَ قَالَ إِنْ كَانَا جَ٠َيْنِ فَلْيَذْبَحِ الأَوَّلَ وَلْيَبِعِ الآخَرَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ ذَبَحَهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ قَدْ ذَبَحَ الآخَرَ فَلْيَذْبَحِ الأَوَّلَ ٠7.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Muhammad ibn Sinan from ibn Muskan from abu Basir who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who buys a ram and it is destroyed (lost).

He (the Imam) said, ‘He must buy another one to replace it.’ I then asked, ‘What is the rule if he buys another and finds the first one?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘If both are available, he slaughters the first one and sells the other, and if he wants he can slaughter it; but if he has already slaughtered the second he must slaughter the first one also.’”