Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food Chapter: The Manner of Slaughtering and al-Nahr ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ يُونُسَ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ الْأَوَّلِ ( عليه السلا٠َكَّةَ لَا يَذْبَحُونَ الْبَقَرَ وَ إِنَّ٠َا يَنْحَرُونَ فِي اللَّبَّةِ فَ٠َا تَرَى فِي أَكْلِ لَحْ٠ِهَا قَالَ فَقَالَ ( عليه السلا٠) فَذَبَحُوها وَ ٠ا كادُوا يَفْعَلُونَ لَا تَأْكُلْ إِلَّا ٠3.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from and Ali ibn Muhammad from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from Yunus ibn Ya’qub who has said the following: “I once said to abu al-Hassan (a.s.), that people of Makkah in the case of cows do Nahr (make a cut in the upper part of the chest); so what do you say about using it for food?

He (the Imam) said, ‘They slaughtered it but they almost failed to do so thus, you must not eat unless it is slaughtered and it is not killed by means of Nahr.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/8))