717 – ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ (may Allah be pleased with them) reported: “The Prophet ﷺ instructed me to equip an army, but the camels were exhausted. He therefore ordered me to draw upon the young camels of the charity stock, and I would take one camel in exchange for two until the charity camels arrived.” Related by al-Ḥākim and al-Bayhaqī, and its transmitters are trustworthy (1).

Status of the ḥadith:
Its chain is strong: al-Ḥākim declared it authentic and al-Dhahabī agreed, as did al-Bayhaqī and al-Nawawī. Al-Shawkānī remarked: “In the isnād of the report from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr there is Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, about whom there is the well-known discussion.” Al-Khaṭṭābī said: “Its chain has been critiqued,” yet Ibn Ḥajar in Fatḥ al-Bārī judged the isnād sound. He further noted in al-Talkhīṣ that al-Bayhaqī also recorded it through the route of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, and authenticated it.

Glossary of the ḥadith:
– “to equip” (an yujahhiz): supplying a traveler or combatant with the gear he needs; the gear is called jihāz.
– “army” (jaysh): troops; pl. juyūsh. The minimum number is said to be four hundred, and some held it to be four thousand.
– qalāʾiṣ (sing. qalus): young, well-formed she-camels. The term applies from the time a camel is first ridden until the end of its ninth year, after which it is called nāqah.‎