I went out once with Ibn ‘Umar to Makkah, and we reached there in the last part of the night.  A shepherd descended upon us from a mountain.  Ibn ‘Umar asked him, “Are you a shepherd?”  The man said, “Yes.”  Ibn ‘Umar said, “Sell me a sheep from the flock.”  The shepherd said, “I am a slave.”  Ibn ‘Umar said, “Tell your master that it was eaten by a wolf.”  The man replied, “Then where is Allah, the Mighty and Majestic?”  Then Ibn ‘Umar wept and said, “Then where is Allah!” He later bought the slave and freed him.

—’Abdullah b. Dinar

(Read on pg 50, Aboo Haatim Muhammad Farooq, From the Best of Mankind. Salafi Publications. Birmingham:2006.)