270 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd Allah also narrated to us; he said: al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Faḍl informed me, from Qurra ibn Khālid, who said: al-Zubayr ibn ʿAdī al-Hamdānī narrated to me; he said: ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd said, “The sins of the children of Adam have killed the juʿal (dung beetle) inside its burrow.” He then added, “Indeed, by Allah, this has been so ever since the people of Noah were drowned.”