- Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭūsī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb likewise; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Harawī at al-Ṣāfiriyyah narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us; he said: Shihāb ibn Khirāsh al-Ḥawshabī narrated, from his uncle al-ʿAwwām ibn ⦗1219⦘ Ḥawshab, who said:
“I once stayed with a tribe, and beside their encampment was a cemetery. Sometime after the afternoon prayer a grave split open and a man emerged—his head was the head of a donkey while his body was that of a human. He brayed three times, then the grave closed back over him.
Nearby sat an old woman spinning hair or wool. A woman said to me, ‘Do you see that old woman?’ I asked, ‘What about her?’ She replied, ‘That is his mother.’
I said, ‘What is his story?’ She answered, ‘He used to drink wine. Whenever he came home, his mother would say, “My son, fear Allah—how long will you go on drinking wine?” He would retort, “You are only braying the way a donkey brays!” He died after the afternoon prayer, and ever since then, every day at that time his grave splits open; he brays three times, and the grave then closes over him.’”