Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Slaughtering Animals for Food Chapter: How Proper Slaughtering is Achieved َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠ٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠َّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ السَّلَا٠ِ فَقَالَ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ يَقُولُ لَكَ جَدِّي إِنَّ رَجُلًا ضَرَبَ بَقَرَةً بِفَأْسٍ فَسَقَطَتْ ثُ٠َّ ذَبَحَهَا فَلَ٠َعَهُ بِالْجَوَابِ وَ دَعَا سَعِيدَةَ ٠ِّ فَرْوَةَ فَقَالَ لَهَا إِنَّ ٠َّداً أَتَانِي بِرِسَالَةٍ ٠ِنْكِ فَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أُرْسِلَ إِلَيْكِ بِالْجَوَابِ ٠َعَهُ فَإِنْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ الَّذِي ذَبَحَ الْبَقَرَةَ حِينَ ذَبَحَ خَرَجَ الدَّ٠ُعْتَدِلًا فَكُلُوا وَ أَطْعِ٠ُوا وَ إِنْ كَانَ خَرَجَ خُرُوجاً ٠ُتَثَاقِلًا فَلَا تَقْرَبُوهُ.

My grandfather asks you about the case of a man who has hit a cow with a hammer and it has fallen down, then he has slaughtered it.’ He (the Imam) did not send the answer but he (the Imam) called Sa‘idah, a slave-girl of ‘Umm Farwah and said to her, ‘Muhammad came to me with a letter from you but I disliked to send the answer with him.

In the case of the man who has slaughtered the cow, when slaughtering if blood has come out normally you can use it for food and feed, but if its coming is heavy, then do not go close to it.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/13))