Joha is herding sheep when huge rainstorm comes. He climbs a tree and prays to God, "Save me and I will offer a bull as sacrifice." Storm weakens. He climbs part way down tree, and now promises a ram, then a rooster. Finally the rain stops, so he gets down from the tree completely. "No need for a sacrifice."
Notes: I have not found this in a Nasruddin book (yet), but it is very much in the spirit of stories where Nasruddin bargains with God in a similar way in terms of money rather than with different sacrificial animals. On animal sacrifice in Islam, see the Wikipedia article on Qurbani.
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