قُلْتُ لَهُ جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ مَا تَقُولُ فِي حَيَّةٍ ابْتَلَعَتْ سَمَكَةً ثُمَّ طَرَحَتْهَا وَ هِيَ حَيَّةٌ تَضْطَرِبُ أَ فَآكُلُهَا فَقَالَ ( عليه السلام ) إِنْ كَانَتْ فُلُوسُهَا قَدْ تَسَلَّخَتْ فَلَا تَأْكُلْهَا وَ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَمْ تَتَسَلَّخْ فَكُلْهَا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad, from Yaqoub Bin Yazeed, from Ahmad Bin Al Mubarak, from Salih Bin Ayn, from Al Washa, from Ayoub Bin Ayn, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, said, ‘I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! What are you<sup>asws</sup> saying regarding a snake which swallows a fish, then it regurgitates it, and it is alive, restless. Can I eat it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If its scales had peeled off, so do not eat it, and if they had not peeled off, so eat it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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