1123 – Ibn ʿUmar (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent out a raiding detachment—of which I was a member—toward Najd. They captured a large number of camels, so each man’s allotted share came to twelve camels, and they were then granted an additional camel apiece as a discretionary reward.” Agreed upon. (1)
Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
• Najd: with fatḥa on the nūn and sukoon on the jīm, ending with a dāl. Linguistically it means an elevated tract of land. In the Arabian Peninsula it refers to the central region whose borders are: to the west, the eastern slopes of the Ṣarāt range; to the east, the Gulf states and al-Ahsaʾ; to the south, the Empty Quarter; and to the north, the approaches to the Levant.
• suhmānum: with ḍamma on the sīn, plural of sahm (“share”); i.e., each person’s portion of the war booty.
• nuffilū: with a shadda on the fāʾ, a passive perfect verb; the wāw serves as the agent, and it is the first object of the verb.
• baʿīran baʿīran (“one camel each”): the first baʿīran is the second object of the expressed verb in the accusative; the second baʿīran is likewise the second object of an implied verb, the sense being: “he granted each one a camel.”
• tanfīl: an additional award given to a combatant beyond his fixed share of the spoils.