Hadith 25

j has Mentioned that in His-azwj Book: And how many a town We Destroyed due to the exultation of its livelihood. – up to His-azwj Words: and We were the Inheritors [28: 58]’’. [30](From a non-Shia source)
And from Abu Al Sideeq Al Naji who said, ‘Suleyman Bin Dawood-as went out with the people for supplicating for rain. He-as passed by an ant lying upon it’s back raising its leg towards the sky, and it was saying, ‘O Allah-azwj! I am a creature from Your-azwj creatures. There isn’t any needlessness from Your-azwj sustenance. Either You-azwj Quench us or You-azwj Destroy us! ’
Suleyman said to the people: ‘Return, for you will be quenched due to the supplication of someone else! ’’[31] (From a non-Shia source)
And from Al Darda’a who said, ‘Dawood-as was judging between the animals one day. A cow came over and placed it’s hornts upon a knocker of the door, then it made a sound like what the mother would make upon her child, and it said, ‘I was a youth. They used to work me and utilise me, then I became old, so they are (now) intending to slaughter me! ’
Dawood-as said: ‘Be good to it, do not slaughter it! ’ Then he-as recited: We have been Taught the speech of the birds and have been Given from all things. [27: 16]’’. [32] (From a non-Shia source)
And from Nowf and Al Hadam, both said, ‘The ant in the era of Suleyman-as was like the fly (in size)’’. [33] (From a non-Shia source)
And from Ibn Abbas, he was asked, ‘How come Suleyman-as missed the Hoopoe from between the birds? ’
He said, ‘Suleyman-as descended at a place, but he-as did not know how remote the water was, and the Hoopoe had pointed Suleyman-as to the water, so he-as had wanted to ask it about it, so he-as missed it’. It was said, ‘How can that be so, and the Hoopoe, the trap is set for it, the soil being cast upon it, and the children places the rope for it and hides it, and hunts it? ’ He said, ‘When the Decree comes, the sight goes away’’. [34] (From a non-Shia source)