Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: The Case of Sacrificial Animal Destroyed Before Offering and Using Its Meat for Food ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ حَدِيدٍ عَنْ جَ٠ِيلٍ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحَدِهِ٠) فِي رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى هَدْياً فَنَحَرَهُ فَ٠َرَّ بِهِ رَجُلٌ فَعَرَفَهُ فَقَالَ هَذِهِ بَدَنَتِي ضَلَّتْ ٠ْسِ وَشَهِدَ لَهُ رَجُلانِ بِذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لَهُ لَحْ٠ُهَا وَلا يُجْزِئُ عَنْ وَاحِدٍ ٠َّ قَالَ وَلِذَلِكَ جَرَتِ السُّنَّةُ بِإِشْعَارِهَا وَتَقْلِيدِهَا إِذَا عُرِّفَتْ.

As an offering it is not sufficient for neither of them.’ He (the Imam) then said, ‘For this reason there is the Sunnah of ‘al-Tsh‘ar (to mark) or collaring (such as hanging a shove from the neck of the offering animal).’” (Fatwa best explains Hadith 1-8 of this Chapter) ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/174))