Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Salih’s father narrates that I performed Hajj with Hazrat Uthman. I prepared a bed for him in a house, and he lay down. Meanwhile, a pigeon came and sat on the skylight above the bed and began to scratch with its feet. I was afraid that it would drop dirt or something else onto the bed, which would wake Hazrat Uthman, so I shooed the pigeon away. It then sat on another skylight, from which a snake emerged and killed it. When Hazrat Uthman woke up from his sleep, I told him about this incident. He said, “Offer a goat as compensation on your behalf.” I said, “I only drove it away because of you.” He replied, “Then offer a goat on my behalf as well.”