Al-Adab Al-Mufrad #375
Mercy
Mu'awiya ibn Qurra reported that his father said, "A man said,
'Messenger of Allah, I was going to slaughter a sheep and then I felt sorry
for it (or 'sorry for the sheep I was going to slaughter').' He said twice,
'Since you showed mercy to the sheep, Allah will show mercy to you.'"
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This hadith is #375 from Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, in the Book of Mercy. Al-Adab Al-Mufrad contains 1,326 hadiths across 57 books.