Hazrat Abu Rashid Salmani narrates that I was grazing my pregnant she-camels near Kufa when one camel got badly stuck in the water. I was afraid that it would die before I could slaughter it, so I took a piece of iron and struck it on its back or its hump. Then I cut it into pieces and gave it to my family. But after hearing the whole story, they refused to eat it. I went to Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and stood at the door of his palace and called out: O Commander of the Faithful! O Commander of the Faithful! Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) replied, "I am here, I am here." I told him the whole matter, and he said, "Eat it, and give me the meat from its hind part."