سَأَلْتُ أَبَا الْحَسَنِ الرِّضَا ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ يَصِيدُ الطَّيْرَ يُسَاوِي دَرَاهِمَ كَثِيرَةً وَ هُوَ مُسْتَوِي الْجَنَاحَيْنِ وَ يَعْرِفُ صَاحِبَهُ أَوْ يَجِيئُهُ فَيَطْلُبُهُ مَنْ لَا يَتَّهِمُهُ قَالَ لَا يَحِلُّ لَهُ إِمْسَاكُهُ يَرُدُّهُ عَلَيْهِ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ فَإِنْ هُوَ صَادَ مَا هُوَ مَالِكٌ بِجَنَاحَيْهِ لَا يَعْرِفُ لَهُ طَالِباً قَالَ هُوَ لَهُ .
Translation
A number of our companons, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Nasr who said, ‘I asked Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza<sup>asws</sup> about a man who hunts the birds which are worth a lot of Dirhams, and its two wings are level, and its owner is known, or he comes over, so he seeks it, one who does not accuse him (of stealing it). He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is not Permissible for him to keep it. He should return it to him’. So I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘So if he hunts what has no control over its two wings, its seeker not known?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is for him’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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