Manner of Slaughtering
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 3|Chapter 185
5ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ (عَلَيْهِما السَّلاَم) يَجْعَلُ السِّكِّينَ فِي يَدِ الصَّبِيِّ ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُ الرَّجُلُ عَلَى يَدِ الصَّبِيِّ فَيَذْبَحُ.
5. It is narrated from him (narrator of previous Hadith) from Mu‘awiyah ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “Ali ibn al-Husayn ‘Alayhi al-Salam, would allow a child to place his hand on the knife. A man then places his hand on the hand of the child and slaughters the offering.’” (Fatwa best explains Hadith 1-5 of this Chapter)
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (18/178)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 240