Hadith 270

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – From Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Abu Yahya Al Wasity, from one of our companions, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws having said: ‘From behind Al Yemen there is a valley called the valley of Barhout, and nothing is in the vicinity of that valley except the black snakes, and the owls from the birds. There is a well in that valley called Balmout. The souls of the Polytheists come and go to it. They are quenched from the pus water. Behind that valley there are a people called Al Zareeh. When Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Send Muhammad-saww, a calf of their shouted and struck with its tail and called out among them in an eloquent voice: ‘A man has come at Tihama calling to the testimony that there is no god except Allah-azwj! ’ They said, ‘Allah-azwj has Caused this calf to speak for a matter! ’’
He-asws said: ‘It called out among them a second time. They determined upon that they should build a ship. They built it, and seven of them descended in it, and they carried from the provision what Allah-azwj had Cast into their hearts. Then they raised the sail and cast it into the sea. It did not cease to travel with them until it threw them at Jeddah. They came to the Prophet‑saww. The Prophet-saww said to them: ‘You are the people of Al-Zareeh, the calf had called out among them? ’ They said, ‘Yes’. They said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! Present to us the religion and the Book! ’ So Rasool-Allah-saww presented to them the religion, and the Book, and the Sunnah, and the Obligation, and the Law just as these had come from the Presence of Allah-azwj, Mighty is His-azwj Mention, and he-saww place a man from the clan of Hashim-as to be in charge of them to conduct with them. So there is no differing between them until this time’’. [109]