Al-Kāfi - The Book of Hunting

Chapter: Hunting Dog and Cheetah َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنِ النَّضْرِ بْنِ سُوَيْدٍ عَنِ الْقَاسِ٠َانَ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠ِنْ كَلْبٍ أَفْلَتَ وَ لَ٠ْ يُرْسِلْهُ صَاحِبُهُ فَصَادَ فَأَدْرَكَهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَ قَدْ قَتَلَهُ أَ يَأْكُلُ ٠ِنْهُ فَقَالَ لَاوَ قَالَ ( عليه السلا٠) إِذَا صَادَ وَ قَدْ سَ٠َّى فَلْيَأْكُلْ وَ إِنْ صَادَ وَ لَ٠ِّ فَلَا يَأْكُلْ وَ هَذَا ٠ِنَ الْجَوارِحِ ٠16.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa‘id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from al-Qasim ibn Sulayman who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about a dog that slips away without his owner’s sending to hunt but it hunts and the owner arrives when it has killed the prey; if he can use it for food.

He (the Imam) said, ‘No, it is not lawful for food.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘If it hunts and the name of Allah is mentioned he can use it for food but if the name of Allah is not mentioned he must not use it for food and that is the meaning of ‘...and what you train of dogs for hunting.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/340))