757 – On the authority of Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh – may Allah be pleased with him – who said: “I wanted to travel to Khaybar, so I came to the Prophet ﷺ. He said, ‘When you reach my agent in Khaybar, take from him fifteen wasqs.’” Reported by Abū Dāwūd, who declared it authentic. (1)

Hadith grading
The hadith is ḥasan (sound).
Ibn Ḥajar said in al-Talkhīṣ: Abū Dāwūd transmitted it through Wahb b. Kaysān with a sound chain; al-Bukhārī cited part of it in a suspended form at the end of the Book of al-Khums; and Abū Dāwūd judged it authentic.
Shaykh Ḥāmid al-Fiqī added: The ḥāfiẓ graded its isnād as good, though it comes through Muḥammad b. Isḥāq.
I say: Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī noted that in certain routes Muḥammad b. Isḥāq explicitly stated “I heard,” and the ḥāfiẓ relayed Abū Dāwūd’s authentication of the hadith.

Vocabulary
– wasq: pronounced with an open wāw and a silent sīn, ending with qāf. One wasq equals sixty Prophetic ṣāʿs; a single Prophetic ṣāʿ weighs roughly 3,000 grams.

Points of benefit
1 – Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh intended to leave Madinah for Khaybar and informed the Prophet ﷺ. Wishing to help Jābir with his travel expenses, the Messenger ﷺ instructed him to go to his agent in charge of collecting zakah at Khaybar and take fifteen wasqs of dates. In that circumstance Jābir would be regarded as a wayfarer (ibn al-sabīl), one of the eligible recipients of zakah should his funds run out, and the Prophet ﷺ told him