It is narrated from Ansar bin Malik that:
We were in the company of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) when a person
from companions arrived and his shanks (forelegs) were bleeding.
The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked: “What happened?”
He replied: “O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), I passed by the side of the
female dog [near the house of] of so and so hypocrite, when I was bitten.”
The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said: “Sit down.” And he sat down at the side of
Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.). When an hour passed, another man arrived, who
was also bleeding from his shanks like the previous one.
The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked: “What happened?” He also replied similarly.
So the Prophet arose and said to companions: “Come, let us kill this dog.”
All of them arose and took up a sword each and when they reached that dog
and wanted to kill it, it came to Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) and said in clear
tongue: “O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), don’t kill me as I believe in God and
His Messenger.”
The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) asked: “Why did you bite these two men?”
He replied: “O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), I am a dog from the Jinni tribe
, and I am appointed to bite those, who abuse Abu Bakr and Umar.
The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked those two men: “Did you do what this dog
said?”
“Yes,” they replied, “O Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), but now we repent to
Almighty Allah.”1
Allamah Amini says: How lofty is the rank of this dog and how brave it is
that Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) armed himself and the companions with swords
drawn and marched to eliminate it. Was it a bitch or a lion, which attacked
others? Or it was a brave wild animal, which attacked and destroyed everything
in its path?
I think that those two men must have been extremely timid from among the
companions; because brave men do not fear lions, what to say of dogs! Where
was this dog present; that till the time of Prophet and after that no one was bitten
by it other than those two men, who abused Abu Bakr and Umar? After that his
biting was never seen or heard.
The author of Umdatut Tahqiq, has prepared himself to analyze and reply
this question, but his efforts are in vain due to the unworthy chains of narrators.
Now, what stopped the tongue of the companions present on that day, when
Almighty Allah made the tongue of that dog open up clearly, from publicizing
this excellence, which was extremely important; they remained dumb whereas
numerous motives were present to publicize such kinds of incidents?
And why senior tradition scholars and historians failed to narrate it? And
researchers have not found this incident in books of Musnad, Sihah and books
regarding merits, biographies, signs and proofs of prophethood; till Ubaidi from
the progeny of Abu Bakr (Aale Siddiq) after a long time, gave glad tidings of this
report and attributed this falsehood to Anas bin Malik.
Is exaggeration in excellence as such…perhaps it is.
Yes, Almighty Allah has hunting dogs and wild animals that He imposes on
His enemies by the supplication of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) or one of his truthful
descendants.
Among them being a dog, which was imposed on Lahab bin Abu Lahab
through the supplications of Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).2
And among them being a dog, which through the supplication of Messenger
of Allah (s.a.w.a.) seized the head of Utbah and killed him.3
Halabi writes in Seeratun Nabawiyyah:4
A similar thing happened for Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.). His Eminence (a.s.) was told: So and so and in Kufa has ridiculed you through verses and abused you
Ahle Bayt (a.s.). The Imam asked that man: “Do you know something from those
statements?”
“Yes,” he replied.
He said: “Recite.”
He recited: “We crucified Zaid on the date palm for your sake and I have not
seen the Mahdi [the guided one of this Ummah] being crucified on tree. Due to
lack of sense, you compared Ali to Uthman whereas Uthman was more excellent
and purer than Ali.”
Ja’far raised his hands and said: “O Allah, if he is lying, imposed a dog from
the dogs upon him.”
Thus, when that man came out, a lion attacked him and the lion is called as
‘Kalb’, because like dogs, it lifts its leg while urinating.
Allamah Amini says: The poet, who was torn up by the lion, Hakim Awar
is one of the poets, who joined the Bani Umayyah in Damascus and the
occurrence of this incident is accepted by everyone.
Only in Mojamul Odba5 is it mentioned that:
Abdullah bin Ja’far condemned that poet, and I rightly think that it is
Abdullah Ja’far, which is changed into Abdullah bin Ja’far.