Al-Kāfi - The Book of Food

Chapter: Another Chapter on the Above Issue َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ عَنْ إِسْ٠َرَ عَنْ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلا٠) فِي رَجُلٍ دَخَلَ قَرْيَةً فَأَصَابَ بِهَا لَحْ٠ْ يَدْرِ أَ ذَكِيٌّ هُوَ أَ٠َيِّتٌ قَالَ يَطْرَحُهُ عَلَى النَّارِ فَكُلُّ ٠َا انْقَبَضَ فَهُوَ ذَكِيٌّ وَ كُلُّ ٠َا انْبَسَطَ فَهُوَ ٠1.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Nasr from ’Isma‘il ibn ‘Umar from Shu’ayb who has said the following: “It is about the case of a man who enters a town where he finds a certain amount of meat, but does not know if it is clean (properly slaughtered) or from dead animals. He (the Imam) said, ‘He can throw it on fire.

If it shrinks it is clean (properly slaughtered) but if expands it is from dead animals.”’ ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (22/57))