276 – ʿAbd Allah narrated to us; he said: Khalid b. Khidāsh narrated to us; he said: Hammad b. Zayd narrated to us, from Musa b. Aʿyan, who said:

“We were herding sheep in Kirmān during the caliphate of ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and both wild beasts and wolves would graze together in the very same spot. ⦗182⦘ One night, however, a wolf leapt at a ewe, so we exclaimed, ‘It seems the righteous man has passed away.’” Hammad added, “He himself—or someone else—later told me that they worked it out and found he had indeed died that very night.”