A wolf came upon a shepherd tending his flock and seized one of the sheep. The shepherd pursued the wolf until he wrested the sheep back from him. The wolf then climbed atop a hill, sat back on his haunches, and lashed his tail, saying, "You went after a provision that Allah had granted me and snatched it away from me."The man exclaimed, "By Allah, I have never seen anything like this day, a wolf that speaks!"The wolf replied, "More astonishing than this is a man among the palm trees between the two lava fields, who tells you of what has passed and what is to come after you."The man was a Jew. He went to the Prophet ﷺ, embraced Islam, and told him what had happened. The Prophet ﷺ confirmed his account, then said, "This is one of the signs heralding the Hour. The time is near when a man will leave his home and not return before his sandals and his whip tell him what his family did after him."
جاء ذئب إلى راعي غنم، فأخذ منها شاة، فطلبه الراعي حتى انتزعها منه، قال: فصعد الذئب على تل، فأقعى واستذفر، فقال: عمدت إلى رزق رزقنيه الله عز وجل انتزعته مني، فقال الرجل: تالله إن رأيت كاليوم ذئبا يتكلم، فقال الذئب: أعجب من هذا رجل في النخلات بين الحرتين، يخبركم بما مضى، وبما هو كائن بعدكم، وكان الرجل يهوديا، فجاء الرجل إلى النبي ﷺ، فأسلم، وخبره، فصدقه النبي ﷺ، ثم قال النبي ﷺ: إنها أمارة من أمارات بين يدي الساعة، قد أوشك الرجل أن يخرج فلا يرجع حتى تحدثه نعلاه وسوطه ما أحدث أهله بعده.
Ahmad narrated it (8063) from Abdul-Razzaq, and it is found in his Musannaf (20808), from Maamar, from Ashath bin Abdullah, from Shahr bin Hawshab, from Abu Hurairah, who related it.Its chain of transmission is hasan because of Ashath bin Abdullah, who is al-Haddani, for he is hasan al-hadith, and likewise Shahr bin Hawshab is hasan al-hadith as long as he does not relate something that is rejected of him.