English Translation

Jabir reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) passed by the marketplace, entering from one of the elevated parts. People were on both sides of him. He passed by a dead kid goat with very small ears, and he took it by its ear and said: "Which of you would like to have this for a dirham?" They said: "We would not want it for anything. What would we do with it?" He said: "Would you like to have it?" They said: "By Allah, even if it were alive, it would be defective as it has very small ears, so how about now when it is dead?" He said: "By Allah, the world is more insignificant to Allah than this is to you." Narrated by Muslim.