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Yaʽfūr (also variously rendered as Yaʽfoor, Yaʽfour, ʽUfayr, ʽOfayr and so on, meaning "Deer" in Arabic) was a donkey used as a mount by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was said to have often ridden it without harness. There are many tales of this donkey but the most common would be that the donkey is recorded to have been a gift from the Byzantine governor of Egypt some time between 628 and 632 AD (8–11 AH). According to a Shi'ite Islamic tradition,^{[citation needed]} it had the power of speech and told Muhammad that it was the last of a line of donkeys ridden by prophets and was a descendant of the donkey ridden by Jesus in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, which was also called Yaʽfūr. The tradition holds that Yaʽfūr committed suicide in despair after Muhammad died by throwing itself into a well, though these accounts are held to be unreliable in hadith studies. In the centuries after Muhammad's death, the donkey's name and symbolism was repeatedly adopted by Islamic religious figures and rulers.

Gifting of Yaʽfūr

Yaʽfūr was one of several animals that Muhammad is said to have ridden; the others included a roan horse called Murtajaz ("Spontaneous"), a black horse called Sakb ("Swift"), a mule called Duldul ("Vacillating") and a camel called Kaswa ("Split-Ears"), who accidentally killed herself when she hit her head on the stone wall of a mosque some time after his death.^[1]

According to the Book of Gifts and Rarities (Kitab al-Hadaya wa'l-Tuhaf), an anonymous 11th century work,^[2] Yaʽfūr was presented to Muhammad by al-Muqawqis, the Byzantine governor of Egypt^[3] (possibly Cyrus of Alexandria, the Patriarch of Alexandria at the time^[4]). Muhammad had sent Muqawqis a letter inviting him to convert to Islam. In return, Muqawqis sent the donkey, the mule Duldul, four slave girls, a eunuch, a horse, 1000 mithqals of gold and quantities of Egyptian goods and articles. One of the slave girls, Maria al-Qibtiyya, a Coptic Christian, was kept by Muhammad for himself and bore him a short-lived son, Ibrahim.^[3] The donkey was no mean gift either, as Egyptian donkeys were known for their beauty and were used by wealthy merchants as a means of transportation.^[5]

Yaʽfūr in hadith

The donkey is the subject of a hadith (an account of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad) which holds that it had the power of speech^{[citation needed]}. According to one version, Muhammad asked the donkey what its name was, to which it replied "Yazīd bin Shihāb". He declined to call it this, instead giving it the name of Yaʽfūr^[6] (a name which, according to another Islamic tradition, was shared by the donkey ridden by Jesus during his triumphal entry into Jerusalem^[5]). The donkey is said to have declined the gift of a female companion.^[6]

Another account holds that it was the donkey that spoke first to Muhammad, telling him that it had formerly been owned by a Jew. It had been uncooperative with its previous owner, deliberately stumbling so as to make him fall off, and was often punished by having its food withheld and being beaten. According to the donkey's own account, it was the last of sixty generations of donkeys which had been used by prophets (including Jesus, Ezra and Balaam) as riding animals.^[6] The donkey was said to have told Muhammad that he was "the last of his lineage, for Muhammad was the last of the prophets, and that he had been waiting for him and had allowed no one else to mount him."^[7]

Muhammad was also said to have used Yaʽfūr as a messenger, sending it to fetch supplies from merchants at whose doors it knocked using its head. The donkey would give the merchant a token telling him to love or to respond to the Prophet of God. When Muhammad died, the grief-stricken donkey was said to have committed suicide by throwing itself down the well of Abū 'l-Haytham bin at-Tayyihān.^[6]

An alternative hadith transmitted in Syria holds that Yaʽfūr's colour was black rather than sandy, that its previous name was 'Amr rather than Yazīd or Ziyād, and that it was the last of seven siblings ridden by prophets, rather than being the last of a line of sixty donkeys.^[8]

These accounts, however, are regarded in hadith studies as being untruthful and their chain of attribution or isnād is seen as dubious. The 12th century historian Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi is quoted as saying, "May God curse the fabricator of this tradition!"^[6] Ibn Hibban considered it weak on the grounds of the source, Muhammad bin Mazyad, being unreliable.^[8]

Political and religious legacy of Yaʽfūr

Followers of Shia Islam believed that the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, would make his appearance in the company of Yaʽfūr the donkey and Duldul the mule. In one uprising, a grey mule representing Duldul was paraded with a chair on its back for the Mahdi.^{[citation needed]} In the lands where Sunni Islam was practised, Yaʽfūr was repeatedly invoked in political and religious events for centuries after Muhammad's death. Al-Aswad al-Ansi, a "false prophet" active in Yemen in the 7th century usurped one of Muhammad's own epithets, calling himself (or being called) the Sahib al-Himar, the "Master of the Ass". Likewise the 8th century Umayyad caliph Marwan II was nicknamed al-Himar, "the Ass". The early Fatimid Caliphate was nearly overthrown in the 10th century by the rebel Abu Yazid, known as the "Man on the Donkey", while in Morocco the 12th century founder of the Almohad movement, Ibn Tumart, insisted on riding a donkey.^[9]

In the wider context, the story of Muhammad's donkey can be seen in the light of such animals being seen as religiously significant in the Near and Middle East for thousands of years.^[10] Donkeys and asses were held by the ancient Israelites to have a special connection with the spirit world. This is illustrated in the story of Balaam and the angel in the Book of Numbers, in which the prophet's donkey sees an otherwise invisible angel and miraculously gains the power of speech.^[11] Samson, too, draws on the mystical power of the donkey by using an ass's jawbone – symbolic of the power of the donkey's voice – to slay a thousand Philistines, while asses and donkeys were integral to the stories of Jesus and David.^[12]

A traditional connection between prophets and donkeys also existed in pre-Islamic Arabia, where seers (known as kahins) were often associated with asses.^[12] Muhammad's arrival was said to have been prophesied by a Jew who spoke of "a man neither short nor tall, wrapped in a cloak, and riding an ass."^[13] The evil anti-Messiah al-Dajjal is also expected to appear on a giant white donkey, while Muhammad himself is widely reported to have warned of the infernal nature of a donkey's voice: "When you hear the bray of an ass, seek refuge with God from the devil."^[14]

References

^ Birgivî Mehmet Efendi; Imam Birgivi; Tosun Bayrak (2005). The Path Of Muhammad: A Book On Islamic Morals And Ethics. World Wisdom, Inc. p. 19. ISBN 9780941532686.
^ Gordon, Matthew (2005). The Rise Of Islam. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 59. ISBN 9780313325229.
^ ^a ^b Ghādah Hijjāwī Qaddūmī (1996). Book of Gifts and Rarities. Harvard CMES. pp. 63–4. ISBN 9780932885135.
^ Hathaway, Jane (2003). A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. SUNY Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780791458846.
^ ^a ^b Book of Gifts and Rarities, p. 253 fn. 7
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Juynboll, G.H.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth. BRILL. p. 41. ISBN 9789004156746.
^ Weinberger, Eliot (2006). Muhammad. Verso. p. 12. ISBN 9781844671182.
^ ^a ^b Bashīr, Sulaymān (2004). Studies in Early Islamic Tradition. JSAI. p. 64. ISBN 9789657258019.
^ Bulliet, Richard W. (2005). Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. Columbia University Press. pp. 156–7. ISBN 9780231130776.
^ Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 144
^ Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 154
^ ^a ^b Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 156
^ Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 158
^ Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 159

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[1] Birgivî Mehmet Efendi; Imam Birgivi; Tosun Bayrak (2005). The Path Of Muhammad: A Book On Islamic Morals And Ethics. World Wisdom, Inc. p. 19. ISBN 9780941532686.

[2] Gordon, Matthew (2005). The Rise Of Islam. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 59. ISBN 9780313325229.

[Gifts-3] Ghādah Hijjāwī Qaddūmī (1996). Book of Gifts and Rarities. Harvard CMES. pp. 63–4. ISBN 9780932885135.

[4] Hathaway, Jane (2003). A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen. SUNY Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780791458846.

[Gifts253-5] Book of Gifts and Rarities, p. 253 fn. 7

[Encyclopedia-6] Juynboll, G.H.A. (2007). Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth. BRILL. p. 41. ISBN 9789004156746.

[7] Weinberger, Eliot (2006). Muhammad. Verso. p. 12. ISBN 9781844671182.

[Bashir-8] Bashīr, Sulaymān (2004). Studies in Early Islamic Tradition. JSAI. p. 64. ISBN 9789657258019.

[9] Bulliet, Richard W. (2005). Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships. Columbia University Press. pp. 156–7. ISBN 9780231130776.

[10] Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 144

[11] Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 154

[Hunters156-12] Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 156

[13] Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 158

[14] Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers, p. 159

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+{{Short description|Donkey used as a mount by the Islamic Prophet Muhammad}}
-'''Ya`fūr''' (sometimes encountered as Ya'foor or Ya'four, etc., and named by some sources as '''`Ufayr''') was a [[donkey]] used as a mount by the [[Islam]]ic [[Prophets in Islam|prophet]] [[Muhammad]].  Described in books written centuries after Muhammad's life, the animal has been portrayed with remarkable characteristics in [[Shi'ite]] tradition.<ref><!--- Sorry, I did NOT read this the best of the references; if you have access please do so and improve this article!--->{{cite web|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/calm/2006/00000018/00000001/art00005|title=The Donkey of the Prophet in Shī`ite Tradition|author=Sindawi, Khalid|publisher=Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group|journal=Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean|volume=18|number=1|date=2006-03|pages=87-98}}</ref>  In 2012, an international furor over the film trailer for ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'' focused in part on differences in the perception of these accounts, which are based on [[hadith]] which, for critics, exemplify the absurdity of Islam, but for believers may be viewed as parables, but apocryphal and of no great importance to their faith.<ref name=Dimitrius>{{cite web|url=http://answering-islam.org/Shamoun/yafoor.htm|title=Muhammad and his Donkey:
+{{Muhammad}}
-The Amazing Fables of Islam|author=Dimitrius & Sam Shamoun|publisher=Answering-Islam.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.answering-christianity.com/sami_zaatri/rebuttal_to_sam_shamoun_65.htm|title=Rebuttal to Sam Shamoun's article "Muhammad and his Donkey: The Amazing Fables of Islam"|author=Sami Zaatari|publisher=Answering-Christianity.com}}</ref>
+'''Ya{{ayin}}fūr''' (also variously rendered as Ya{{ayin}}foor, Ya{{ayin}}four, {{ayin}}Ufayr, {{ayin}}Ofayr and so on, meaning "Deer" in [[Arabic language|Arabic]]) was a [[donkey]] used as a mount by the [[Prophets in Islam|Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]], who was said to have often ridden it without harness. There are many tales of this donkey but the most common would be that the donkey is recorded to have been a gift from the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] governor of [[Egypt]] some time between 628 and 632 AD (8–11 [[Hijri year|AH]]). According to a [[Shia Islam|Shi'ite]] Islamic tradition,{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}} it had the power of speech and told Muhammad that it was the last of a line of donkeys ridden by prophets and was a descendant of the donkey ridden by Jesus in his [[triumphal entry into Jerusalem]], which was also called Ya{{ayin}}fūr. The tradition holds that Ya{{ayin}}fūr committed suicide in despair after Muhammad died by throwing itself into a well, though these accounts are held to be unreliable in [[hadith studies]]. In the centuries after Muhammad's death, the donkey's name and symbolism was repeatedly adopted by Islamic religious figures and rulers.
+==Gifting of Ya{{ayin}}fūr==
-==Original sources==
-Ya'fur is described by [[Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari]] as one of several gifts from al-Muqawqis, brought by [[Hatib ibn Abi Baitah|Hātib b. Abi Balta'ah]] with the slave women [[Maria al-Qibtiyya]]  and her sister Sīrīn, a eunuch, the female mule Duldul (described as the "first mule in Islam"), and goods.  According to the account, Ya'fur died shortly after the [[Farewell Pilgrimage]].<ref name=Tabari>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SWPQfmdf5J4C&pg=PA150|title=The Last Years of the Prophet (volume 9 of [[History of the Prophets and Kings]])|author=[[Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari]]|translator=Ismail K. Poonawala|publisher=SUNY|pages=131-150}}</ref>
+Ya{{ayin}}fūr was one of several animals that Muhammad is said to have ridden; the others included a [[Roan (horse)|roan]] horse called ''Murtajaz'' ("Spontaneous"), a black horse called ''Sakb'' ("Swift"), a mule called ''[[Duldul (mule)|Duldul]]'' ("Vacillating") and a camel called ''Kaswa'' ("Split-Ears"), who accidentally killed herself when she hit her head on the stone wall of a [[mosque]] some time after his death.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Path Of Muhammad: A Book On Islamic Morals And Ethics|url=https://archive.org/details/pathmuhammadbook00bayr|url-access=limited|author1=Birgivî Mehmet Efendi|author2=Imam Birgivi|author3=Tosun Bayrak|page=[https://archive.org/details/pathmuhammadbook00bayr/page/n35 19]|publisher=World Wisdom, Inc|year=2005|isbn=9780941532686}}</ref>
-A more extraordinary story by [[Ibn Kathir]] in ''[[Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya]]'', written in the fourteenth century,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Far.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2F%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D8%25A8%25D8%25AF%25D8%25A7%25D9%258A%25D8%25A9_%25D9%2588%25D8%25A7%25D9%2584%25D9%2586%25D9%2587%25D8%25A7%25D9%258A%25D8%25A9|title=[[Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya]]|author=[[Ibn Kathir]]|volume=6}} (Google translation of Ibn Kathir's work on Arabic Wikisource)</ref> has been extensively referenced by critics such as [[Zakaria Botros]], on which the ''[[Innocence of Muslims]]'' video is based.  The story describes a conversation between Muhammad and Ya'fur in which the donkey said that sixty generations of its forebears had been ridden only by prophets; after Muhammad's death the donkey commits suicide by jumping in a well to avoid being ridden by anyone else.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.time.com/2012/09/12/the-anti-mohammed-video-ridiculous-and-now-deadly-serious/|title=The Anti-Muhammad Video: Ridiculous, and Now Deadly Serious|author=James=Poniewozik|publisher=Time Entertainment}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|
-url=http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/father-zakaria-botros-on-the-perverse-sexual-habits-of-the-prophet-part-iii.html|title=Father Zakaria Botros on "The perverse sexual habits of the Prophet" Part III|publisher=Jihad Watch}}</ref><ref name=Dimitrius /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c9d_1303534965|title=Muhammad's Donkey|publisher=[[LiveLeak]]}}</ref>
+According to the ''[[Book of Gifts and Rarities]]'' (''Kitab al-Hadaya wa'l-Tuhaf''), an anonymous 11th century work,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Rise Of Islam|last=Gordon|first=Matthew|page=[https://archive.org/details/riseofislam0000gord/page/59 59]|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2005|isbn=9780313325229|url=https://archive.org/details/riseofislam0000gord/page/59}}</ref> Ya{{ayin}}fūr was presented to Muhammad by [[Muqawqis|al-Muqawqis]], the Byzantine governor of Egypt<ref name="Gifts">{{cite book|title=Book of Gifts and Rarities|pages=63–4|author=Ghādah Hijjāwī Qaddūmī|publisher=Harvard CMES|year=1996|isbn=9780932885135}}</ref> (possibly [[Cyrus of Alexandria]], the [[Patriarch of Alexandria]] at the time<ref>{{cite book|title=A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen|last=Hathaway|first=Jane|page=168|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2003|isbn=9780791458846}}</ref>). Muhammad had sent Muqawqis a letter inviting him to convert to [[Islam]]. In return, Muqawqis sent the donkey, the mule Duldul, four slave girls, a [[eunuch]], a horse, 1000 ''[[mithqal]]s'' of gold and quantities of Egyptian goods and articles. One of the slave girls, [[Maria al-Qibtiyya]], a [[Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Coptic Christian]], was kept by Muhammad for himself and bore him a short-lived son, [[Ibrahim ibn Muhammad|Ibrahim]].<ref name="Gifts" /> The donkey was no mean gift either, as Egyptian donkeys were known for their beauty and were used by wealthy merchants as a means of transportation.<ref name="Gifts253">''Book of Gifts and Rarities'', p. 253 fn. 7</ref>
+==Ya{{ayin}}fūr in hadith==
+The donkey is the subject of a [[hadith]] (an account of the sayings and deeds of Muhammad) which holds that it had the power of speech{{cn|date=August 2018}}. According to one version, Muhammad asked the donkey what its name was, to which it replied "Yazīd bin Shihāb". He declined to call it this, instead giving it the name of Ya{{ayin}}fūr<ref name="Encyclopedia">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediacano00juyn|url-access=limited|last=Juynboll|first=G.H.A.|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediacano00juyn/page/n75 41]|publisher=BRILL|year=2007|isbn=9789004156746}}</ref> (a name which, according to another Islamic tradition, was shared by the donkey ridden by [[Jesus]] during his triumphal entry into Jerusalem<ref name="Gifts253" />). The donkey is said to have declined the gift of a female companion.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
+Another account holds that it was the donkey that spoke first to Muhammad, telling him that it had formerly been owned by a [[Jewish people|Jew]]. It had been uncooperative with its previous owner, deliberately stumbling so as to make him fall off, and was often punished by having its food withheld and being beaten. According to the donkey's own account, it was the last of sixty generations of donkeys which had been used by prophets (including Jesus, [[Ezra]] and [[Balaam]]) as riding animals.<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> The donkey was said to have told Muhammad that he was "the last of his lineage, for Muhammad was the last of the prophets, and that he had been waiting for him and had allowed no one else to mount him."<ref>{{cite book|title=Muhammad|last=Weinberger|first=Eliot|page=12|publisher=Verso|year=2006|isbn=9781844671182}}</ref>
+Muhammad was also said to have used Ya{{ayin}}fūr as a messenger, sending it to fetch supplies from merchants at whose doors it knocked using its head. The donkey would give the merchant a token telling him to love or to respond to the Prophet of God. When Muhammad died, the grief-stricken donkey was said to have committed suicide by throwing itself down the well of Abū 'l-Haytham bin at-Tayyihān.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
+An alternative hadith transmitted in [[Syria]] holds that Ya{{ayin}}fūr's colour was black rather than sandy, that its previous name was 'Amr rather than Yazīd or Ziyād, and that it was the last of seven siblings ridden by prophets, rather than being the last of a line of sixty donkeys.<ref name="Bashir">{{cite book|title=Studies in Early Islamic Tradition|last=Bashīr|first=Sulaymān|page=64|publisher=JSAI|year=2004|isbn=9789657258019}}</ref>
+These accounts, however, are regarded in hadith studies as being untruthful and their chain of attribution or ''isnād'' is seen as dubious. The 12th century historian [[Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi]] is quoted as saying, "May God curse the fabricator of this tradition!"<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> [[Ibn Hibban]] considered it weak on the grounds of the source, [[Muhammad bin Mazyad]], being unreliable.<ref name="Bashir" />
+==Political and religious legacy of Ya{{ayin}}fūr==
+Followers of [[Twelver|Shia]] [[Shia Islam|Islam]] believed that the [[Muhammad al-Mahdi|Mahdi]], the prophesied redeemer of Islam, would make his appearance in the company of Ya{{ayin}}fūr the donkey and Duldul the mule. In one uprising, a grey mule representing [[Duldul (mule)|Duldul]] was paraded with a chair on its back for the Mahdi.{{Citationneeded|date=May 2024}} In the lands where [[Sunni Islam]] was practised, Ya{{ayin}}fūr was repeatedly invoked in political and religious events for centuries after Muhammad's death. [[Al-Aswad al-Ansi]], a "false prophet" active in [[Yemen]] in the 7th century usurped one of Muhammad's own epithets, calling himself (or being called) the ''Sahib al-Himar'', the "Master of the Ass". Likewise the 8th century [[Umayyad]] [[caliph]] [[Marwan II]] was nicknamed ''al-Himar'', "the Ass". The early [[Fatimid Caliphate]] was nearly overthrown in the 10th century by the rebel [[Abu Yazid]], known as the "Man on the Donkey", while in [[Morocco]] the 12th century founder of the [[Almohad]] movement, [[Ibn Tumart]], insisted on riding a donkey.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers: The Past and Future of Human-Animal Relationships|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231130769|url-access=registration|last=Bulliet|first=Richard W.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231130769/page/156 156–7]|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780231130776}}</ref>
+In the wider context, the story of Muhammad's donkey can be seen in the light of such animals being seen as religiously significant in the Near and Middle East for thousands of years.<ref>''Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers'', p. 144</ref> Donkeys and asses were held by the ancient [[Israelite]]s to have a special connection with the spirit world. This is illustrated in the story of [[Balaam]] and the angel in the [[Book of Numbers]], in which the prophet's donkey sees an otherwise invisible angel and miraculously gains the power of speech.<ref>''Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers'', p. 154</ref> [[Samson]], too, draws on the mystical power of the donkey by using an ass's jawbone – symbolic of the power of the donkey's voice – to slay a thousand [[Philistines]], while asses and donkeys were integral to the stories of Jesus and [[David]].<ref name="Hunters156">''Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers'', p. 156</ref>
+A traditional connection between prophets and donkeys also existed in pre-Islamic [[Arabia]], where seers (known as ''kahins'') were often associated with asses.<ref name="Hunters156" /> Muhammad's arrival was said to have been prophesied by a Jew who spoke of "a man neither short nor tall, wrapped in a cloak, and riding an ass."<ref>''Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers'', p. 158</ref> The evil anti-Messiah [[Masih ad-Dajjal|al-Dajjal]] is also expected to appear on a giant white donkey, while Muhammad himself is widely reported to have warned of the infernal nature of a donkey's voice: "When you hear the bray of an ass, seek refuge with God from the devil."<ref>''Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers'', p. 159</ref>
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