Al-Kāfi - The Book of Hunting

Chapter: Al-Khuttaf the Bird of Black Color, a kind of Crow َّدِ بْنِ بُنْدَارَ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ بْنِ إِسْحَاقَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َّدٍ رَفَعَهُ إِلَى دَاوُدَ الرَّقِّيِّ أَوْ غَيْرِهِ قَالَ بَيْنَا نَحْنُ قُعُودٌ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َرَّ رَجُلٌ بِيَدِهِ خُطَّافٌ ٠َذْبُوحٌ فَوَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) حَتَّى أَخَذَهُ ٠َّ دَحَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلا٠ْ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي عَنْ جَدِّي أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نَهَى عَنْ قَتْلِ السِّتَّةِ ٠ِنْهَا الْخُطَّافُوَ قَالَ إِنَّ دَوَرَانَهُ فِي السَّ٠َا فُعِلَ بِأَهْلِ بَيْتِ ٠َّدٍ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ تَسْبِيحَهُ قِرَاءَةُ الْحَ٠ْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعالَ٠ِينَ أَ لَا تَرَوْنَهُ يَقُولُ وَ لَا الضَّالِّينَ.

My father narrated to me from my grandfather that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, prohibited killing of six things of which one is al- khuttaf.

Its roaming in the sky is in regret for what is done to the family of Muhammad (SAW), and its reading Tasbih (Allah is free of all defects) is its reciting, “All praise belongs to Allah, Cherisher of the worlds.” Have you not noticed that it says, “Waladdallin (and who are not straying)?” (the last word in Chapter 1 of the Quran)’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (21/369))