Mediaeval Muslims claimed the Jewish Law was lost when a donkey strayed.

Evidence

Peter the Venerable simplified the Islamic case. Muslims alleged (he said) that the Jews lost their Law in the return from Babylon, when the donkey that carried it strayed from the crowd of refugees. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 277

Categorization

• CANDY: The image of the whole Jewish Law vanishing because the donkey carrying it wandered off from a refugee column is a wonderfully absurd little fact for conversation.