Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: A wolf came to a shepherd of goats and took one goat from his flock. The shepherd went after it and snatched the goat back from the wolf. The narrator says: The wolf then climbed a mound, sat on its haunches with its tail between its legs, and said: "You came to a provision that Allah Almighty had granted me and snatched it away from me?" The shepherd said: "By Allah! I have never seen anything like today: a wolf talking!" The wolf said: "More astonishing than this is a man who lives among the date palms between the two lava plains, and who tells you about what has passed and about what will happen after you." That man was a Jew. He came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and told him about this. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) confirmed what he said and stated: "This is one of the signs that come before the Hour. Soon it will happen that a man will go out, and he will not return until his sandals and his whip tell him what his family did after him." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
This narration is in the Sahih in abridged form.
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).
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