سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنِ الْمُضْطَرِّ إِلَى الْمَيْتَةِ وَ هُوَ يَجِدُ الصَّيْدَ قَالَ يَأْكُلُ الصَّيْدَ قُلْتُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَلَّ لَهُ الْمَيْتَةَ إِذَا اضْطُرَّ إِلَيْهَا وَ لَمْ يُحِلَّ لَهُ الصَّيْدَ قَالَ تَأْكُلُ مِنْ مَالِكَ أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ أَوْ مِنْ مَيْتَةٍ قُلْتُ مِنْ مَالِي قَالَ هُوَ مَالُكَ لِأَنَّ عَلَيْكَ فِدَاهُ قُلْتُ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عِنْدِي مَالٌ قَالَ تَقْتَضِيهِ إِذَا رَجَعْتَ إِلَى مَالِكَ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Yunus Bin Yaqoub who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about the one desperate to the dead (animal carcass), and he can find the hunted prey. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘He should eat the hunted prey’. I said, ‘Allah<sup>azwj</sup> has Permitted the animal carcass for him when he is desperate for it, and has not Permitted the hunted prey for him’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Is your eating from your own wealth more beloved to you or from an animal carcass?’ I said, ‘From my own wealth’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is your wealth, because upon you is its ransom’. I said, ‘Supposing there does not happen to be wealth with me?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘You can fulfill it when you return to your wealth’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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