قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) جُعِلْتُ فِدَاكَ الْمَيْتَةُ يُنْتَفَعُ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْهَا قَالَ لَا قُلْتُ بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مَرَّ بِشَاةٍ مَيْتَةٍ فَقَالَ مَا كَانَ عَلَى أَهْلِ هَذِهِ الشَّاةِ إِذْ لَمْ يَنْتَفِعُوا بِلَحْمِهَا أَنْ يَنْتَفِعُوا بِإِهَابِهَا قَالَ تِلْكَ شَاةٌ لِسَوْدَةَ بِنْتِ زَمْعَةَ زَوْجِ النَّبِيِّ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) وَ كَانَتْ شَاةً مَهْزُولَةً لَا يُنْتَفَعُ بِلَحْمِهَا فَتَرَكُوهَا حَتَّى مَاتَتْ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مَا كَانَ عَلَى أَهْلِهَا إِذْ لَمْ يَنْتَفِعُوا بِلَحْمِهَا أَنْ يَنْتَفِعُوا بِإِهَابِهَا أَنْ تُذَكَّى .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya and someone else, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Aasim Bin Humeyd, from Ali Bin Al Mugheira who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘May I be sacrificed for you<sup>asws</sup>! The dead, can anything be benefitted from it?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No’. I said, ‘It has reached us that Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> passed by a dead sheep, and he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘What was upon the owners of this sheep? If they were not benefitting by its flesh, they could have benefitted by its skin?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘That sheep belonged to Sawda Bint Zam’a, a wife of the Prophet<sup>saww</sup>, and the sheep was skinny, they could not have been benefitted from by its flesh, so she had neglected it until it died. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘What was upon the owners of this sheep? If they were not benefitting by its flesh, they could have benefitted by its skin?’ – if she had purified (slaughtered) it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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