ʿAbdullāh narrated to us; he said: my father narrated to me; he said: Khālid ibn Ḥayyān Abū Yazīd al-Raqqī narrated to us; he said: Jaʿfar narrated to us, from Maymūn ibn Mahrān, who said:

“Someone brought Abu Bakr a fully fledged crow. He turned it over in his hands and then remarked, ‘No creature is ever taken in the hunt, and no tree is ever lopped, except because of the tasbīḥ (glorifying Allah) that people have neglected.’”