One day a man bought a chicken and wanted to remove its bones and slaughter it, so the man went to the chicken seller and asked him to do that. The seller told him: Wait a few minutes and you will find it ready, Allah willing.
After the chicken owner left, the city judge came to the chicken seller and asked him about chicken to buy. The seller told him that he had no chicken except this one, and its owner would return after a few minutes to take it. So he said to him: I will take it, and if its owner returns, tell him that your chicken has flown away.
The seller was very angry at this statement and said to him in wonder and anger: How can I tell the man that his chicken has flown away when he himself brought it to me slaughtered? The city judge said to him: Listen to what I tell you and tell him it flew away, and if he complains against you, do not fear. The chicken seller heard his words out of fear of his authority and gave him the chicken while supplicating that Allah would conceal him.
After a few minutes passed, the chicken owner returned to the seller asking him whether the chicken was ready or not. The seller told him that his chicken had flown away. The man was astonished and said to him: How can it fly when I gave it to you slaughtered? The man began to quarrel with the chicken seller until the chicken owner told him that they should go to court to be held accountable and the judge would judge for him his right.
While they were going to the judge, they saw in their path a Muslim and a Jew quarreling. The chicken seller wanted to separate them, so he put his finger in the Jew’s eye and accidentally popped it without intending to. People seized him and wanted to take him to the judge in court so that the judge could rule against him. But the man kept running and fled from them, entered a mosque with people behind him wanting to catch up with him. He climbed the minaret with them behind him, and jumped from it onto an old man.
The old man died, and his son wanted to seize the chicken seller and take him to the judge to rule against him. Indeed, he was able to seize him and took him to the judge, along with the chicken owner, the Jew, and the rest of the people who witnessed the incidents.
When they arrived at the court and stood before the judge, the judge saw the chicken seller and laughed inwardly, not knowing that he had brought him three cases, not just one.
The judge called the owner of the first case, who was the chicken owner, and asked him to speak. The chicken owner told him what had happened, that when he returned to take his chicken, the seller told him that his chicken had flown away, so how could it fly? The judge said to him: Do you not believe in Allah? The chicken owner said: Yes, I believe in Allah. The judge said to him: “Allah gives life to the bones while they are decomposed.” So go, you have nothing against him.
Then the judge called the owner of the second case, and the Jew came and told him what had happened to him, the popping of his eye. The judge told him that the compensation of a Muslim from a disbeliever is only half, and in order to be able to pop one eye of the seller, he must pop the other eye for him. The Jew refused to pop the second eye, and the case ended.
The judge called the third case with mockery while laughing. The son of the man who died told him about what happened to his father because of the seller. The judge said to him: Take him to the same place, climb the minaret, and jump on him as he did to your father. The man said to him: What if he goes far away and I fall on the ground and die or do not die? The judge said to him: And why did your father not go right or left?
The purpose of this story is the moral lesson. There are people who have someone to save them from their actions and get them out of any predicament, but woe to them from the judge of heaven.