1130 – Ruwayfiʿ ibn Thābit (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day must not ride an animal taken from the Muslims’ fayʾ (non-combat booty); if he should leave it gaunt, he must return it to that property. Nor may he wear a garment from the Muslims’ fayʾ; if he wears it threadbare, he must return it to that property.” It was narrated by Abu Dāwūd and al-Dārimī, and its transmitters are reliable.⦗1⦘

Hadith grading
The hadith is ḥasan (sound). Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Talkhīs, “It was transmitted by Aḥmad, Abu Dāwūd, and Ibn Ḥibbān,” and in Bulūgh he remarked, “Its transmitters are reliable,” while in Fatḥ al-Bārī he rated it ḥasan. The report is further supported by other texts prohibiting embezzlement from war booty, such as the hadith recorded by Abu Dāwūd, al-Ḥākim, and al-Bayhaqī from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, stating that the Prophet ﷺ, together with Abu Bakr and ʿUmar, burned the belongings of the embezzler and denied him his share.

Vocabulary
– fayʾ (non-combat booty): linguistically “to return”; wealth taken from unbelievers without fighting is called fayʾ because it “returns” from the polytheists to the Muslims.
– aʿjafahā: to render the animal thin and weak; al-ʿajfāʾ denotes a skinny beast, with the plurals ʿijāf and ʿajf.
– akhlaqahu: to wear a garment out and make it threadbare.