3 – Abū Khaythama and Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Azdī both narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab narrated to us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUbayd-Allah ibn ʿAbd-Allah ibn ʿUtbah, from Ibn ʿAbbās (may Allah be pleased with them), who said:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by a dead sheep and said, “By Him in whose hand is my soul, this world is more insignificant to Allah Almighty than this sheep is to its owners.”