ABSTRACT
A C A M E L , an ox and a ram were going along the way when they came upon a bunch of grass lying on the road in front of them.
‘If we divide this up,’ the ram said, ‘for a certainty not one of us will get his fill of it. But whichever of us has lived the longest has the best right to this fodder; let him eat it ; for Muhammad set an example for all to follow, to give priority to one’s elders. Comrades, since such a piece of luck has come our way, let each of us declare his age. The oldest has the best right; the rest keep silent. As for myself,’ the ram concluded, ‘ I shared the same pasture in those long ago times with the ram that Abraham sacrificed for Ishmael.’
