Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that when my mother gave birth to a child, I took the child to the Noble Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) so that he could chew a date and rub it on the child’s palate. At that time, the Noble Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was marking goats in the camel enclosure. Imam Shu’bah says: I think Hisham said that he was marking the ears of the goats.