Harmalah ibn Yahya al-Tujibi narrated to us: Ibn Wahb informed us: Yunus informed me, from Ibn Shihab, that Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab informed him that Abu Hurayrah said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "Allah made mercy into one hundred parts. He retained ninety-nine parts with Himself and sent down one part to the earth. It is from that part that creatures show mercy to one another, such that an animal lifts its hoof away from its offspring for fear of harming it."