Al-Kafi 5363

Translation

Ali Bin Muhammad, from Abdullah Bin Is’haq Al Alawy, from Al Hassan Bin Ali, from Muhammad Bin Suleyman Al Daylami, from Fureyt, from Ibn Abu Yafour who said, ‘I was in the presence of Abu Abdullah^asws when a man from the otter hunters came over to him^asws, and he said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! What are you^asws saying regarding the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> in the otter (fur)?’ So he^asws said, ‘There is no problem with the <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> in it. So the man said to him^asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you^asws! It is dead, and it is my profession, and I understand it’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘I^asws more understanding with it than you do’. So the man said to him, ‘It is my profession, and there is none more understanding with it than I am’. So Abu Abdullah^asws smiled, then said to him: ‘You are saying that it is an animal coming out from the water, or being hunted from the water, so when it comes out and misses the water, it dies’. So he said, ‘You^asws speak the truth, may I be scarified for you^asws! This is how it is’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘So you are saying that it is an animal walking upon four, and it is not upon a limit of the fish, so its purification is its exit from the water?’ So the man said, ‘Yes, by Allah^azwj! It is like this’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘But Allah^azwj Blessed and High has Permitted it, and Made its purification to be (upon) its death, just as He^azwj has Permitted the fish and Made its purification, (upon) its death’.

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