44/1. Chapter:
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan 1544 — The Book of the Virtues of the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ
The virtues of Abû Bakr As-Siddîq. ﵁
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan : 1544
Al-Lu'lu Wal-MarjanHadith Number 1544
حديث أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنها، قَالَ: صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ، صَلَاةَ الصُّبْحِ ⦗١٢٥⦘ ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فَقَالَ: بَيْنَا رَجُلٌ يَسُوقُ بَقَرَةً إِذْ رَكِبهَا فَضَرَبَهَا فَقَالَتْ: إِنَّا لَمْ نُخْلَقْ لِهذَا؛ إِنَّمَا خُلِقْنَا لِلْحَرْثِ فَقَالَ النَّاسُ: سُبْحَانَ اللهِ بَقَرَةٌ تَكَلَّمُ فَقَالَ: فَإِنِّي أُومِنُ بِهذَا، أَنَا وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ وَمَا هُمَا ثَمَّ وَبَيْنَمَا رَجُلٌ فِي غَنَمِهِ إِذْ عَدَا الذِّئْبُ فَذَهَبَ مِنْهَا بَشَاةٍ، فَطَلَبَ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ اسْتَنْقَذَهَا مِنْهُ، فَقَالَ لَهُ الذِّئْبُ: هذَا، اسْتَنْقَذْتَهَا مِنِّي، فَمَنْ لَهَا يَوْمَ السَّبُعِ، يَوْمَ لَا رَاعِيَ لَهَا غَيْرِي فَقَالَ النَّاسُ: سُبْحَانَ اللهِ ذِئْبٌ يَتَكَلَّمُ قَالَ: فَإِنِّي أُومِنُ بِهذَا أَنَا وَأَبُو بَكْرٍ وَعُمَرُ وَمَا هُمَا ثَمَّ.
Abû Huriara Narrated from:
Once Allâh’s Messenger ﷺ offered the morning prayer and then faced the people and said, “While a man was driving a cow, he rode over it and beat it. The cow said, ‘We have not been created for this, but we have been created for ploughing.’ ” On that the people said astonishingly, “Glorified be Allāh! A cow speaks!” The Prophet ﷺ said, “I believe this, and Abū Bakr and ‘Umar too, believe it, although neither of them was present there.”The Prophet ﷺ added: “While a person was amongst his sheep, a wolf attacked and took one of the sheep. The man chased the wolf till he rescued it (the sheep) from the wolf, whereupon the wolf said, ‘You have rescued it (the sheep) from me; but who will guard it on the day of the wild beasts when there will be no shepherd to guard them except me?’ ” The people said surprisingly, “Glorified be Allāh! A wolf speaks!” [1] The Prophet ﷺ said, “But I believe this, and Abū Bakr and ‘Umar too, believe this, although neither of them was present there.”( Sahîh Al-Bukhârî, Hadîth No. 677, Vol. 4 )
[1] It has been written that a wolf also spoke to a shepherd during the Prophet’s lifetime near Al-Madîna as narrated in Musnad of Imâm Ahmad and in the Musnad of Abû Sa‘îd Al-Khudrî (Vol 3, Page 83): Narrated Abû Sa‘îd Al-Khudrî (رضي الله عنه) : (While a shepherd was in his herd of sheep), suddenly a wolf attacked a sheep and took it away, the shepherd chased the wolf and took back the sheep, the wolf sat on its tail and addressed the shepherd saying: “Be afraid of Allāh, you have taken the provision from me which Allāh gave me”. The shepherd said: “What an amazing thing! A wolf sitting on its tail speaks to me in the language of a human being”. The wolf said: “Shall I tell you something more amazing than this? There is Muhammad, the Messenger of Allāh (صلى الله عليه وسلم) in Yathrib (Al-Madîna) informing the people about the news of the past.” Then the shepherd (after hearing that) proceeded (towards Al-Madîna) driving his sheep till he entered Al-Madîna, cornered his sheep in a place, and came to Allah’s Messenger (Muhammad ﷺ) and informed the whole story. Allah’s Messenger ordered for the proclamation of a congregational prayer (صلاة جامعة), then he ﷺ came out and asked the shepherd to inform the people (about his story) and he informed them. Then Allāh’s Messenger ﷺ said: “He (the shepherd) has spoken the truth. By Him (Allāh) in Whose Hands my soul is, the Day of Resurrection will not be established till beasts of prey (سباع) speak to the human beings, and the stick lash and the shoe-laces of a person speak to him and his thigh inform him about his family as to what happened to them after him. [ Musnad of Imâm Ahmad. Vol 3, p. 83, Musnad Abû Sa‘îd Al-Khudrî]
