A crow burying its companion
A Crow teaching Cain how to bury his brother (1 Verse)
Quran 5:31 - Then Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother.
He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?"...
SOURCE: Jewish legend related by Pirkei Rabbi Eliezer, Chapter XXI (21),
SOURCE: https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_DeRabbi_Eliezer.21.10?lang=bi
SOURCE: Jewish Folklore and Legends, By David Goldstein, Page 8
Jewish legend related by Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer, Chapter XXI (21.10) - CAIN AND ABEL
"Adam and his help mate were sitting weeping and lamenting over him [Abel], and they did not know what to
do with Abel, for they were not acquainted with burial. A raven, one of whose companions had died, came.
He took him and dug in the earth and buried him before his eyes. Adam said, 'I shall do as this raven.'
Immediately, he took Abel's corpse and dug in the earth and buried it."
Composed in Talmudic Israel/Babylon (c.630 - c.1030 CE). Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer (Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer)
is an aggadic-midrashic work on the Torah containing exegesis and retellings of biblical stories.
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