WE RELATE FROM the book of Ibn as-Sunnī that ‘Abdullāh ibn Mas‘ūd 
reported that the Messenger of Allah 
said: “If any of you has an animal which runs away in a deserted land he should call out: O slaves of Allah, seize it! O slaves of Allah, seize it! For Allah 
has a blockade that will confine it.” [1].
reported that the Messenger of Allah said: “If any of you has an animal which runs away in a deserted land he should call out: O slaves of Allah, seize it! O slaves of Allah, seize it! For Allah has a blockade that will confine it.” [1].
Yā ‘ibāda-llāhi-ḥbisū! Yā ‘ibāda-llāhi-ḥbisū!
I say that one of our great and knowledgeable shaykhs related to me that his animal—I think it was a mule—ran away. He knew this hadith and said it, and Allah immediately restrained it for them. On another occasion I was with a group of people when one of their beasts ran away and they were unable to catch it. I said this hadith and it stopped immediately, for no other reason but these words.
References
[1] Ibn as-Sunnī (509).