‘Abdallah b. Hubaish reported Allah's Messenger ﷺ as saying, ‘‘If anyone cuts down a lote tree, Allah will lower his head in hell.” Abu Dawud transmitted it, saying this is an abbreviated tradition meaning that if anyone wrongfully, unjustly and with no benefit to him from it cuts down in a desert a lote tree under which travellers and animals seek shade, Allah will lower his head in hell.