قال: فقلت له فقوله تعالى: وَ الْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَ...
قال: فقلت له فقوله تعالى: وَ الْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَ الْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَ الْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَ النَّطِيحَةُ وَ ما أَكَلَ السَّبُعُ إِلَّا ما ذَكَّيْتُمْ؟ He said, ‘So I said to him -asws , ‘The Words of the Exalted: ‘ and the strangled, and the sick, and the fallen, and the gored, and what the predators have eaten (from), except what you have purified [5:3] ?’ قال: «المنخنقة: التي انخنقت بأخناقها حتى تموت، و الموقوذة: التي مرضت و وقذها المرض حتى لم تكن بها حركة، و المتردية: التي تتردى من مكان مرتفع إلى أسفل، أو تتردى من جبل، أو في بئر فتموت، و النطيحة: التي تنطحها بهيمة أخرى فتموت، و ما أكل السبع منه فمات، و ما ذبح على النصب: على حجر أو صنم إلا ما أدركت ذكاته فذكي He -asws said: ‘The strangled is that which is strangled by suffocating it until it dies; and the sick is what which falls sick and its illness overcomes it until there is no movement in it; and the fallen is that which is thrown from a high place to a low, or thrown from a mountain, or into a well, so it dies; and the gored is which is gored by a another beast, so it dies; and what the predators have eaten from, so it dies, and what is slaughtered upon the altars, upon a rock or an idol, except what comes across its (Islamic) slaughter, so it is slaughtered’.
قلت: وَ أَنْ تَسْتَقْسِمُوا بِالْأَزْلامِ؟ قال: «كانوا في الجاهلية يشترون بعيرا فيما بين عشرة أنفس و يستقسمون عليه بالقداح، و كانت عشرة: سبعة لها أنصباء، و ثلاثة لا أنصباء لها، أما التي لها أنصباء: فالفذ، و التوأم، و النافس، و الحلس، و المسبل، و المعلى، و الرقيب. و أما التي لا أنصباء لها: فالسفيح، و المنيح، و الوعد.
I said, ‘ and that which you are apportioning with the arrows ?’ He -asws said: ‘They used to, during the Pre-Islamic period, buying a camel in what is between ten people, and they would be dividing upon it with the pieces of iron, and these were ten – seven having marks, and three not having marks for it. As for those which had marks were (called), Al Afaz , and Al Tawa’im , and Al Nafis , and Al Halas , and Al Masbal , and Al Ma’la . And Al Raqeed .
And as for those not having marks for it were (called) Al Safeed , and Al Maneeh , and Al Wa’d ’.
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