Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 21017 — Those who said: slaughter may be done

Abu Rashid al-Salmani said: I was grazing my family's pregnant she-camels near Kufa when one camel got badly stuck in water. I feared that its life would depart before I could slaughter it, so I took a piece of iron and struck it into its back or its hump. Then I cut it into pieces and gave them to my family. But when they heard the whole story, they refused to eat it. I went to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), stood at the door of his palace and called out: O Commander of the Believers! O Commander of the Believers! Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Here I am, here I am. I told him the whole matter, and he said: Eat it, and give me the meat of its hindquarters.