“The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) passed by the market and approached [one of the shops] seeking to buy some perfume, while the people had surrounded him. Then he passed by a dead goat with its ears cut, lying in a rubbish heap, so he took hold of it by its [severed] ear and asked, ‘Who among you would want to buy this for a dirham?’ They said, ‘We would not like to buy this for any amount – what would we do with it?’ He said, ‘Would you not like to possess it?’ They said, ‘No!’ He (ṣ) repeated that [question] thrice, so they said, ‘By Allah, even if it were alive it would be flawed, so how about now when it is dead!’ The Messenger of Allah (ṣ) said, ‘Verily the [material] world is less valuable to Allah than this [dead goat] is to you.’”