Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37740 — The words of Ubayd bin Umayr

It is narrated from Ubayd bin Umayr: When the flood of drowning came upon the people of Nuh, he said: Among those people was a woman who had a child with her. The narrator said: The woman raised the child to her waist. When the water reached the waist, she raised the child to her chest. Then when the water reached the chest, she raised the child to her breast. Allah Almighty said: If I were to have mercy on any of these people, I would have mercy on this woman, meaning because of her mercy toward the child.