قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِنَّا قَوْمٌ نَخْتَلِفُ إِلَى الْجَبَلِ وَ الطَّرِيقُ بَعِيدٌ بَيْنَنَا وَ بَيْنَ الْجَبَلِ فَرَاسِخُ فَنَشْتَرِي الْقَطِيعَ وَ الِاثْنَيْنِ وَ الثَّلَاثَةَ وَ يَكُونُ فِي الْقَطِيعِ أَلْفٌ وَ خَمْسُمِائَةِ شَاةٍ وَ أَلْفٌ وَ سِتُّمِائَةِ شَاةٍ وَ أَلْفٌ وَ سَبْعُمِائَةِ شَاةٍ فَتَقَعُ الشَّاةُ وَ الِاثْنَتَانِ وَ الثَّلَاثَةُ فَنَسْأَلُ الرُّعَاةَ الَّذِينَ يَجِيئُونَ بِهَا عَنْ أَدْيَانِهِمْ فَيَقُولُونَ نَصَارَى قَالَ فَقُلْتُ أَيُّ شَيْءٍ قَوْلُكَ فِي ذَبِيحَةِ الْيَهُودِ وَ النَّصَارَى فَقَالَ يَا حُسَيْنُ الذَّبِيحَةُ بِالِاسْمِ وَ لَا يُؤْمَنُ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا أَهْلُ التَّوْحِيدِ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Hanan Bin Sudeyr, from Al Husayn Bin Al Munzar who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘We are a people interchanging to the mountains, and the road is remote between us and the mountain, (many) <span class="iTxt">Farsakhs</span> (units of distance). So we buy the flock, and the two (flocks) and the three (flocks), and there happen to be in the flock one thousand five hundred sheep, and one thousand six hundred sheep, and one thousand seven hundred sheep. So one sheep, or two, or three are cut. So we ask the shepherds who come with these about their religion, so they are saying, ‘(They are) Christians’. He (the narrator) said, ‘So I said, ‘What would your<sup>asws</sup> say regarding a slaughter by the Jews and the Christians?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘O Husayn! The slaughtered animal by the Naming (<span class="iTxt">Bismillah</span>), and there is no reliability over it except for the People of the Oneness (<span class="iTxt">Twaheed</span>)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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