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They said, 'Pray to your Rabb for us, that He make clear to us what she may be: does it graze freely or is it used in labour?; the cows (that is, the species described in the way mentioned), are all alike to us, because there are many of them and we have not been able to find the one sought after; and if Allahu ta’ālā wills, we shall then be guided' to it. In one hadīth [it is reported]: 'Had they not uttered the proviso [inshā'allāh], it would never have been made clear to them'.