Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food Chapter: Tools for Slaughtering عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َرَ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ عَنْ ٠ٍ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلا٠) عَنِ الذَّبِيحَةِ بِاللِّيطَةِ وَ بِالْ٠َرْوَةِ فَقَالَ لَا ذَكَاةَ إِلَّا بِحَدِيدَةٍ. 1.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from ‘Umar ibn ‘Udhaynah from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “I once asked abu Ja‘far (a.s.), if an animal can be slaughtered with a piece of sharp wood or stone. He (the Imam) said, ‘Without iron it is not a proper slaughtering.”’ حسن - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/5))