In some Islamic miracle versions the poisoned lamb itself warned Muhammad

Evidence

There were also miraculous versions of the same story, also Islamic in origin. Vitry and the Syrian Apology cited very similar forms in which the shoulder of lamb spoke to the Prophet: ‘I have poison in me, be careful not to eat me in the food’, or ‘See you do not eat me, for I am poisoned.’ Why, asked Vitry, paraphrasing an argument that appeared in the Risalah, did Muhammad not recognise the poison that eighteen years later he died of; why, asked the original from which Paris and Viterbo derived, did he not save his companion who died? — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 596

Categorization

• FICTION: A speaking poisoned cut of meat that warns its eater is an arresting folkloric motif with surreal, darkly comic potential.
• CANDY: The image of a roast lamb shoulder warning ‘do not eat me, I am poisoned’ is a wild, tweetable curiosity.
• XREF: connects to: The poisoned lamb story originates in Islamic sources, not Christian polemic