Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 14081

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: A wolf attacked a goat and seized it. The shepherd went after it and snatched the goat back from the wolf. The wolf then sat on its tail in the iq'a' posture and said to the shepherd: "Do you not fear Allah Almighty? You have snatched from me the provision that Allah Almighty had granted me." The man said: "How astonishing! A wolf sitting on its tail in the iq'a' posture is speaking with me like a human being!" The wolf said: "Shall I not tell you of something more astonishing than this? In Yathrib is Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), who informs people of the news of earlier times." The narrator says: Then the shepherd came driving his goats until he entered Madinah. He gathered them in one corner of Madinah, then came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him about this. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the order, and it was announced that all the people should gather. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and said to that bedouin: "Tell these people about it." He told them, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He has spoken the truth. By the One in whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), the Hour will not be established until wild beasts speak with human beings, and the tip of a man's whip and the strap of his sandal speak to him, and his thigh tells him what his wife did after him." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Imam al-Tirmidhi recorded the last part of this narration.
Ahmad recorded it.