They said, “O Messenger of Allah, we shall neither sell it nor slaughter it.”
He replied,
“Yet it cried out for help and you did not help it. I am more entitled to compassion than you, for Allah has stripped mercy from the hearts of the hypocrites and placed it in the hearts of the believers.”
The Prophet ﷺ thereupon bought the camel for one hundred dirhams. He then said,
“Camel, go; you are free for the sake of Allah.”
The animal bellowed so that its voice rose above the head of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Messenger of Allah said, “Āmīn.” It bellowed a second time and he said, “Āmīn.” It bellowed a third time and he said, “Āmīn.” When it bellowed a fourth time, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wept.
We asked, “O Messenger of Allah, what is this camel saying?”
He answered, “It is saying:
‘May Allah reward you, O Prophet, with the best reward for Islam and the Qur’an.’
I replied, ‘Āmīn.’
It said, ‘May Allah calm the terror of your community on the Day of Resurrection just as you have calmed my terror.’
I replied, ‘Āmīn.’
It said, ‘May Allah spare the blood of your community from its enemies just as you have spared my blood.’
I replied, ‘Āmīn.’
It said, ‘May Allah never let its violence turn upon itself.’
At that I wept and said, ‘These are requests I made of my Lord; He granted me three and withheld one. Gabriel has informed me from Allah that the destruction of my community will come by the sword, and the Pen has already recorded what must be.’” ⦗1⦘
I say: This ḥadīth is extremely gharīb (singular, transmitted through only one chain). I have not found any of the other authors of the Dalāʾil to have cited it except this compiler, and both its chain and its text contain nakārah (anomalies that scholars disapprove of). Allah knows best.
A ḥadīth on sheep prostrating to him ﷺ
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥāmid also said: Yaḥyā ibn Ṣāʿid reported to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAwf al-Ḥimṣī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Zubaydī narrated to us; ʿAbbād ibn Yūsuf al-Kindī Abū ʿUthmān narrated to us; Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī narrated to us, from al-Rabīʿ ibn Anas, from Anas ibn Mālik who said:
The Prophet ﷺ entered an orchard belonging to the Anṣār accompanied by Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, and a man from the Anṣār. Inside the orchard were sheep, and they prostrated to him. Abū Bakr said, “O Messenger of Allah, we were more deserving of prostrating to you than these sheep!” He replied,
“It is not proper for anyone to prostrate to anyone else; had it been proper for a person to prostrate to another, I would have ordered a wife to prostrate to her husband.” ⦗2⦘
This report is gharīb (singular, transmitted through only one chain), and within its isnād are narrators who are unknown.
[The story of the wolf and its testimony to his Messengership]
Imām Aḥmad ⦗3⦘ said: Yazīd narrated to us; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥaddānī narrated to us, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: