As for the charitable endowments of Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), they are a fixed and limited set, because he set them apart and thereby made them identifiable. There are eight of them.

The first—and the first land owned by Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)—was the property bequeathed to him by Mukhayriq the Jew from the possessions of Banu al-Nadir. Al-Waqidi related that Mukhayriq the Jew was a rabbi and one of the scholars of Banu al-Nadir. He believed in Allah’s Messenger on the day of Uhud. He owned seven walled gardens: al-Muthabbit, al-Safiyah, al-Dalal, Husna, Barqah, al-A‘waf, and al-Mashrabah. When he embraced Islam, he bequeathed them to Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he fought alongside him at Uhud until he was killed.

The second charitable endowment was the land belonging to him among the property of Banu al-Nadir in Medina. It was the first land that Allah granted as fayʾ to His Messenger. He expelled them from it while sparing their lives, and allowed them to take whatever their camels could carry of their property, except for their weapons. They departed with what their camels could carry, going to Syria and Khaybar, and their land came into the possession of Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), except for the holdings of Yamin ibn Umayr and Abu Sa‘d ibn Wahb. They had embraced Islam before the victory over them, and their Islam secured all their property for them. Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) then distributed all of their property apart from the two plots of land.