و أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي...

و أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي، جميعا، عن أبان بن عثمان الأحمر، عن أبان بن تغلب Ibn Babuwayh said, ‘Ahmad Bin Ziyad Ja’far Al Hamdany narrated to us, and Al Husayn Bin Ibrahim Bin Ahmad Bin Hisham Bin Al Mowdab, and Ali Bin Abdullah Al Waraq, and Hamza Bin Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Ja’far Bin Muhammad Bin Zayd Bin Ali Bin Al Husayn -asws Bin Ali Bin Abu Talib -asws , from Ali Bin Ibrahim Bin Hashim in the year three hundred and seven, from his father, from Abu Ahmad Muhammad Bin Zayd Al Azdy, and Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr Al Zubeyri, altogether, from Aban Bin Usman Al Ahmar, from Aban Bin Taghlub, عن أبي جعفر محمد بن علي الباقر (صلوات الله عليهما) أنه قال في قوله عز و جل: حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَ الدَّمُ وَ لَحْمُ الْخِنْزِيرِ الآية، قال: «الْمَيْتَةُ وَ الدَّمُ وَ لَحْمُ الْخِنْزِيرِ معروف وَ ما أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ يعني ما ذبح للأصنام (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far Muhammad -asws Bin Ali Al-Baqir -asws having said regarding the Words of the Mighty and Majestic Prohibited unto you is the dead, and the blood and meat of the pig [5:3] – the Verse, said: ‘The dead, and the blood, and the meat of the pig is well known, and whatever has been dedicated for other than Allah with – Means what has been slaughtered for the idols.

و أما الْمُنْخَنِقَةُ فان المجوس كانوا لا يأكلون الذبائح و يأكلون الميتة، و كانوا يخنقون البقر و الغنم، فإذا اختنقت و ماتت أكلوها. وَ الْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ كانوا يشدون عينها و يلقونها من السطح، فإذا ماتت أكلوها. وَ النَّطِيحَةُ كانوا يناطحون بالكباش، فإذا مات أحدها أكلوه And as for and the strangled , so the Magians were not eating the slaughtered and they were eating the dead, and they used to strangle the cows and the sheep, so when it was strangled and died, they ate it.