Abdullah reported: We were with Allahs Messenger ﷺ in a cave when there was revealed to him (the Sura al-Mursalat, i. e. Sura lxxvii.:" By those sent forth to spread goodness") and we had just heard (it) from his lips when there appeared before us a snake. He said: Kill it. We hastened to kill it, but it slipped away from us, thereupon Allahs Messenger ﷺ said: Allah saved it from your harm just as he saved you from its evil.