Hadith 305

(The book) ‘Al Kharaij Wa Al Jaraih’ – It is reported that Al A’ala Bin Sayabah said, ‘A man came to Abu Abdullah-asws and he-asws was praying Salat. A hoopoe bird came and landed by his-asws head, until he-asws performed Salaam and turn towards it. I said, ‘I have come to ask you-asws. I saw what is stranger’. He-asws said: ‘What is it? ’ I said, ‘What the hoopoe did’. He-asws said: ‘It came to me-asws, complaining to me-asws of a snake devouring its chick, so I-asws supplicated to Allah-azwj against it, and He-azwj Caused it to die’. I said, ‘O my Master-asws! I am such that no child of mine lives, and every time my wife gives birth, her child dies’. He-asws said: ‘This isn’t from that genus, but when you return to your house, a female dog would enter to you, intending that your wife feeds it. Instruct her not to feed it. Say to the dog, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws has instructed me to be saying, ‘Pull away from us, may Allah-azwj Curse you! ’ So your child will live if Allah-azwj so Desires’. My children lived, and I left three boys behind’’. [141]