وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ
Wa izal wuhooshu hushirat
And when the wild beasts are gathered
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Day of Judgment
81:5Ayah 129
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and when the wild beasts are mustered when they are brought together after being resurrected so that each of them may retaliate against the other before becoming dust;
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They (the residents of) Medina will abandon Medina whereas it is good for them and it will be haunted by beasts and birds, and two shepherds will come out from Muzainah intending (to go) towards Medina and tending their herd, and will find nothing but wilderness there until when they will reach the mountain path of Wada, they will fall down on their faces.
I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "The people will leave Medina in spite of the best state it will have,
and none except the wild birds and the beasts of prey will live in it, and the last persons who will die
will be two shepherds from the tribe of Muzaina, who will be driving their sheep towards Medina, but
will find nobody in it, and when they reach the valley of Thaniyat-al-Wada`, they will fall down on
their faces dead."
Five are the beasts 1618 harmful and vicious and these must be killed even within the precincts of the Ka'ba: crow, kite, voracio@s dog, kcorpion and rat.
Its inhabitants will abandon it, whereas it is good for them and it will become the haunt of beasts and birds. (Imam Muslim said that Abu Safwan, one of the narrators whose name was 'Abdullah b. 'Abd al-Malik, was an orphan and I bn juraij took him under his care for ten years.)
There are five beasts, all of them are vicious and harmful and there is no sin for one who kills them (and these are): scorpion, crow, kite, rat and voracious dog.
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