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The crow

الغراب

God sent a crow scratching the ground to show one of Adam's sons, who had killed his brother, how to hide his brother's nakedness; he cried 'Am I too weak to be like this crow?' The crow is among the vermin the Prophet ﷺ permitted killing.

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Animals and mercy

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 1026· Muwatta 1027· Muwatta 1028· Muwatta 1031· Qur'an 5:31

People and things also explored

The kite· The mouse· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· The scorpion and the five pests· Muhammad· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Al Bukhari· The dog

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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The kite

One of the five vermin the Prophet permitted to be killed in and out of ihram, with the crow, the scorpion, the mouse and the rabid dog — any other bird killed in ihram is ransomed.