Musa ibn A‘yan said: “I heard Sufyan al-Thawri say regarding His words, ‘Indeed, the most repulsive of voices is the braying of donkeys’: ‘The cry of every creature is a glorification of Allah, except that of the donkey.’” (1)

Ja‘far al-Sadiq said regarding His words, “Indeed, the most repulsive of voices is the braying of donkeys”: “It is the ugly, repulsive sneeze.”

Wahb said: “Luqman spoke twelve thousand branches of wisdom, which people incorporated into their speech, legal cases, and judgments.”

Khalid al-Rabi‘i said: “Luqman was an Abyssinian slave. His master gave him a sheep and said, ‘Slaughter it and bring me its two choicest morsels.’ So he brought him the tongue and the heart. Then he gave him another sheep and said, ‘Slaughter it and bring me its two foulest morsels.’ Again, he brought him the tongue and the heart. His master asked him about this, and he replied, ‘Nothing is better than these two when they are good, and nothing is more foul than them when they are corrupt.’” (2)