A wolf attacked a sheep and seized it. The shepherd pursued the wolf and snatched the sheep back from him. The wolf then sat upright on its tail and said, "Do you not fear Allah? You are taking from me a provision that Allah has driven to me."The shepherd said, "How astonishing! A wolf sitting on its tail speaking to me with the speech of humans!"The wolf said, "Shall I not tell you of something even more amazing than this? Muhammad ﷺ is in Yathrib informing people of the news of what has come before."The shepherd then drove his flock until he entered Madinah, where he gathered them into a corner of the city. Then he came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and told him what had happened. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave orders, and the call was made, "The prayer is gathering." Then he came out and said to the shepherd, "Tell them."So the shepherd told them, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "He has spoken the truth. By the One in whose hand is my soul, the Hour will not come until wild beasts speak to humans, and a man's whip-tip and the strap of his sandal will speak to him, and his thigh will inform him of what his family did after him."
حدثنا يزيد أخبرنا القاسم بن الفضل الحداني عن أبي نضرة
عدا الذئب على شاة فأخذها فطلبه الراعي فانتزعها منه فأقعى الذئب على ذنبه قال ألا تتقي الله تنزع مني رزقا ساقه الله إلي فقال يا عجبي ذئب مقع على ذنبه يكلمني كلام الإنس فقال الذئب ألا أخبرك بأعجب من ذلك محمد ﷺ بيثرب يخبر الناس بأنباء ما قد سبق قال فأقبل الراعي يسوق غنمه حتى دخل المدينة فزواها إلى زاوية من زواياها ثم أتى رسول الله ﷺ فأخبره فأمر رسول الله ﷺ فنودي الصلاة جامعة ثم خرج فقال للراعي أخبرهم فأخبرهم فقال رسول الله ﷺ صدق والذي نفسي بيده لا تقوم الساعة حتى يكلم السباع الإنس ويكلم الرجل عذبة سوطه وشراك نعله ويخبره فخذه بما أحدث أهله بعده
Its isnad is sahih. Qasim bin Fadl bin Madan Haddani is trustworthy, and the hadith was narrated by Tirmidhi 4/476, no. 2181, in the chapter on Fitan, "What has been said about the speech of wild beasts," and by Hakim in Mustadrak 4/467, who graded it sahih according to the criterion of Muslim, and Dhahabi agreed with him.