In the beginning (of the campaign) a quarter, and upon returning a third.¹

Regarding this chapter, there are (also narrations) from Ibn ʿAbbās, Ḥabīb ibn Maslamah, Maʿn ibn Yazīd, Ibn ʿUmar, and Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ.

The ḥadīth of ʿUbādah is a ḥasan ḥadīth.

This ḥadīth has also been narrated from Abū Sallām, from a man among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

1648 – Hannād narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī al-Zinād narrated to us, from his father, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, from Ibn ʿAbbās: that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, took as his extra share (tanaffala) his sword Dhū al-Faqār on the day of Badr.

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¹ A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth by virtue of corroborating evidence; recorded by Aḥmad (22726), Ibn Mājah (2852), and Ibn Ḥibbān (4855). It has a supporting witness from Ḥabīb ibn Maslamah in Aḥmad (17462–17469), Abū Dāwūd (2748–2750), and Ibn Mājah (2851) and (2853), with a sound chain. His saying "yunaffil" with a shaddah on the fāʾ means: to give from the spoils of war (nafal). "In the beginning a quarter, and upon returning a third" means: at the start of the campaign—that is, when a raiding party sets out from the army and advances toward the enemy at the beginning of the campaign, whatever they capture is given to them a quarter of it, and the remainder is divided among the rest of the army. And if a group does the same when the army is returning, they are given a third of what they captured, because their action at the time of the army's return is more arduous due to the weakness of mounts and equipment, fatigue, and greater longing for home—so it was increased for that reason. Al-Sindī said this in his ḥāshiyah on al-Musnad; see also Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī 5/147.