The Case of One Who Faces an Emergency to Hunt or Use of Carcasses

“I once asked abu ‘ Abd Allah (a.s.), about a man who faces an emergency and there are only carcasses and a prey. Which one can he eat? He (the Imam) said, ’He can eat from the prey as much as he likes to eat from his belongings? I then said, ‘Is it so?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘He only owes to pay ransom; he can eat and pay the ransom”

“‘I asked Abu 'Abdillah (AS) about the one desperate to the dead (animal carcass), and he can find the hunted prey.' He said: ‘He should eat the hunted prey.' I said, ‘Allah has permitted the animal carcass for him when he is desperate for it, and has not permitted the hunted prey for him?’ He said: ‘Is your eating from your own wealth more beloved to you or from an animal carcass?’ I said, ‘From my own wealth’. He said: ‘It is your wealth, because upon you is its ransom.' I said, ‘Supposing there does not happen to be wealth with me?’ He said: ‘You can fulfill it when you return to your wealth.'”

“About the case of a man in the state of Ihram who is forced to eat from hunting or carcasses, abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that he can eat from hunting and pay the ransom.”