Mishkatul Masabih — Hadith #39693

On the authority of Amir al-Ram, he said: While we were with him, meaning at the Prophet’s, peace and blessings of God be upon him, when a man wearing a cloak approached and in his hand was something that had been wrapped around him, and he said: O Messenger of God, I passed a clearing of trees, and I heard the sounds of bird chicks, so I took them and put them in my clothes, and their mothers came. So she turned around and I revealed them to her. She fell on them and wrapped them with my clothes. They are right with me. He said: “Put them on.” So I gave birth to them, but their mother refused except for what was necessary for them. Then the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: “Do you marvel at the womb of a mother of chicks, her chicks?” By the One who sent me In truth: God is more merciful to His servants than a mother of chicks is to her chicks. Take them back until you put them back from where you took them, while their mothers are with them. So he brought them back. Narrated by Abu Dawood