عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عُثْمَانَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ قَالَ:
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قُلْتُ لِأَبِي الْحَسَنِ يَعْنِي مُوسَى بْنَ جَعْفَرٍ ع أَ يَحِلُّ أَكْلُ لَحْمِ الْفِيلِ فَقَالَ لَا قُلْتُ وَ لِمَ قَالَ ع لِأَنَّهُ مَثُلَةٌ وَ قَدْ حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ الْأَمْسَاخَ وَ لَحْمَ مَا مُثِّلَ بِهِ فِي صُوَرِهَا.
Read English translationHide English translationMuhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn
4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ‘Amr ibn ‘ Uthman from al-Husayn ibn Khalid who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan, Musa ibn Ja‘far (a.s.), about the flesh of elephants. He (the Imam) said, ‘No, it is not lawful for food.’ I then asked, ‘Why is it so?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It has deformities and Allah, most Majestic, most Glorious, has made what is metamorphosed unlawful for food as well as the flesh of what is deformed in its shape.”’
Translation: Muhammad Sarwar — attributed by Thaqalayn·The Arabic above is the original.
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1- مجهولAllamah Baqir al-MajlisiMirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/32)