Abu Dawud said: Its meaning is that no share of the spoils was allotted to him.

151 - Chapter on giving a share of the spoils to a polytheist

2732 - Musaddad and Yahya ibn Ma'in narrated to us, both saying: Yahya narrated to us, from Malik, from al-Fudayl, from Abdullah ibn Niyar, from Urwah—

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This is also found in "Sunan Sa'id ibn Mansur" (2466).

It was also narrated by Ibn Abi Shaybah 14/359, al-Bukhari in "al-Tarikh al-Kabir" 2/27 and in "al-Tarikh al-Awsat" 1/193, Abu Ya'la (2315), and al-Bayhaqi 9/31, via the chain of al-A'mash.

Ibn Makula said in "Tahdhib Mustamirr al-Awham" p. 215: Jabir's presence at al-Aqabah is authentic, but as for Badr, it is not authentic, and the scholars of biographies reject that.

Ibn Makula said this in response to al-Daraqutni, who said in "al-Mu'talif wa al-Mukhtalif" in the chapter on Habtah, narrating a hadith about the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, deeming a number of companions too young on the Day of Uhud, mentioning among them Jabir ibn Abdullah. Al-Daraqutni said: I fear that he may not have preserved Jabir correctly, because Jabir attended al-Aqabah with his father and maternal uncle, and attended Badr (the text in the printed edition contains a corruption which we corrected from "Tahdhib Mustamirr al-Awham").

Likewise, Abu Salamah Mansur ibn Salamah al-Khuza'i, one of the narrators of the hadith that al-Daraqutni attributed with a chain, said after narrating it: I fear that he may not have preserved Jabir correctly. This was narrated by al-Bukhari in "al-Tarikh al-Awsat" 1/161 and others.

However, al-Hafiz mentioned in "al-Isabah" in the biography of Jabir ibn Abdullah, a man from the Ansar, that Ibn Fathun mentioned from Ibn Sa'd that he attributed the same hadith with a chain regarding the deeming of a number of companions too young on the Day of Uhud, and said in his narration: "And Jabir ibn Abdullah" — not the one from whom the hadith is narrated. We say: If this is authentic, then this is another companion, and our hadith is safe from criticism. The one who attended Badr would be Jabir ibn Abdullah ibn Haram, the well-known companion, and the one deemed too young would be another, a namesake of Jabir, and it is he whom the biographers meant. Ibn Makula would then be mistaken in his claim, and al-Daraqutni and Abu Mansur before him would also be mistaken, because they assumed he was Jabir ibn Abdullah, the well-known companion. And Allah Almighty knows best.

Al-Khattabi said: "Al-Ma'ih" is the one who descends to the bottom of the well, fills the bucket, and raises it to the one drawing water. He is the one who pulls up the bucket.