Chapters on Virtues
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 3677
بَيْنَا رَجُلٌ رَاكِبٌ بَقَرَةً إِذْ قَالَتْ لَمْ أُخْلَقْ لِهَذَا إِنَّمَا خُلِقْتُ لِلْحَرْثِ
baynā rajulun rākibun baqaratan idh qālat lam ukhlaq lihadhā innamā khuliqtu lilḥarthi
Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks
The full narration
Narrated Abu Salamah bin 'Abdur-Rahman:from Abu Hurairah, who said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "While a man was riding a cow it said: "I was not created for this, I was only created to till.'" So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "I believe in that, myself, and Abu Bakr, 'Umar." Abu Salamah said: "And the two of them were not among the people that day [and Allah knows best]
Source
Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī · 3677
Ṣaḥīḥ
- Sahih
- Sahih
- Hasan Sahih
- Sahih - Agreed Upon