Hadith 97

ammad-saww, or (unless) this Liard believes! ’ Then he threw down the lizard from his sleeve. When the lizard fell upon the ground, it turned around fleeing. The Prophet-saww called out to it: ‘O you lizard, come to me-saww! ’ The lizard came looking at the Prophet-saww. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘The Prophet-saww said to it: ‘O you lizard! Who am I-saww? ’ So there, it spoke with an eloquent tongue, unbroken, without stuttering. It said, ‘You-saww are Muhammad-saww Bin Abdullah-asws Bin Abdul Muttalib-asws Bin Hashim-as Bin Abd Manaf-as’. The Prophet-saww said to it: ‘Whom do you worship? ’ It said, ‘I worship Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Who Split the seed and Formed the person, and Took Ibrahim-as as a friend, and Chose you-saww, O Muhammad-saww, as a Beloved! ’
Then it prosed saying, ‘Indeed, O Rasool-Allah-saww! You-saww are truthful, so you-saww Blessed as guided, and Blessed as a guide. You-saww legislated an upright religion for us after what we had been worshipping the resemblances of the donkeys, the tyrants. O best of the callers and O best of the ones Sent to the Jinn after the humans. At your-saww service, caller, and we are people from Suleym, and we follow you-saww wishing to attain the benefits. You-saww have come with the clear proof from Allah-azwj. So, you-saww became truthful of the word among us, pure. You-saww are a Blessing in the situations of life and death, and of Blessed birth and Blessed life’. Then there was a seal upon the mouth of the lizard, and it did not respond an answer. When the Bedouin looked at that, he said, ‘O how strange! A lizard I had hunted from the wilderness, then I came with it being in my sleeve, it neither understood nor had any knowledge, nor having any intellect, spoke to Muhammad-saww with this talk, and testified to him-saww with this testimony? I will not seek any effects after the eyes have extended to your-saww right, for I hereby testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and I testify that Muhammad-saww is His-azwj servant and His-azwj Rasool-saww’. The Bedouin became a Muslim and his Islam was good. Then the Prophet-saww turned towards his-saww companions and said to them: ‘Teach the Bedouin a Chapter from the Quran’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘When the Bedouin had learnt a Chapter from the Quran, the Prophet-saww said to him: ‘Is there something from the wealth for you? ’ He said, ‘By the One-azwj Who Sent you-saww with the truth as a Prophet-saww! We are four thousand men from the clan of Suleym. There is no one poorer than me among them, nor of lesser wealth’. The Prophet-saww turned to his-saww companions and said to them: ‘Whoever carried the Bedouin upon a camel I-saww will guarantee for him, based upon Allah-azwj, a camel from the camels of Paradise’. He (Ibn Abbas) said, ‘Sa’ad Ibn Ubada leapt towards him-saww and said, ‘May my father and my mother be sacrificed for you-saww! There is a red strong-backed camel with me, and it is for the bedouin’. The Prophet-saww said to him: ‘O Sa’ad! Are you priding over us-asws with your camel? Shall I-saww describe to you the camel which we-asws shall be giving you in replace