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The ant

النملة

An ant in the Valley of the Ants warned its people of Solomon's army and he smiled at her words; the surah of the Ant is named for her, and the Prophet ﷺ forbade killing her with the bee, the hoopoe and the shrike.

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Abu Dawud 5265 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Abu Dawud 5266 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Abu Dawud 5267 — He forbade killing four creatures· Abu Dawud 5268 — The hummarah's chicks and the burned ant-hill· Bukhari 3019 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Bukhari 3319 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Ibn Majah 3225 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Muslim 2241 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Muslim 2241b — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Muslim 2241c — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Nasa'i 4358 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Qur'an 27:18

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Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· Muhammad· The bee· The birds· The hoopoe· The shrike· Bukhari 3019 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant· Abu Dawud 5265 — A prophet stung by an ant: why not just the one ant

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  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Sunan Abi Dawud
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islam.museum contributors. “The ant”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/ant/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

A hadith qudsi is what the Prophet related from his Lord, marked in the chains by the formula 'among what he relates from his Lord', and also called divine or lordly tradition to set it apart from the prophetic hadith. The Encyclopaedia of Islam notes that, unlike the Qur'an, it is not recited in the prayer and may be touched without ritual purity, and that it may come by inspiration or in a dream rather than necessarily through Gabriel. It forms no separate group in the books of tradition, but collections exist, among them al-Madani's al-Ithafat al-saniyya and Ibn al-Arabi's Mishkat al-anwar.