thirty-six shares, each major share being treated as one hundred sub-shares. One-half of this went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and to the Muslims, while the other half was reserved for the contingencies of delegations, public affairs, and people’s unforeseen hardships. Abū Dāwūd alone narrated this version.

Abū Dāwūd (1) said: “Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā narrated to us; Mujammiʿ ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Mujammiʿ ibn Yazīd al-Anṣārī narrated to us; I heard my father, Yaʿqūb ibn Mujammiʿ, say—on the authority of his uncle ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd al-Anṣārī, from his uncle Mujammiʿ ibn Jāriyah al-Anṣārī, who was one of the Qurʾān-reciters—who said:
‘Khaybar was distributed among those who had been present at al-Ḥudaybiyyah. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ divided it into eighteen shares. The army numbered one thousand five hundred men, including three hundred horsemen. He allotted two shares to each horseman and one share to each infantryman.’ Abū Dāwūd alone recorded this report.

Mālik related—on the authority of al-Zuhri—that Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib informed him that the Prophet ﷺ captured part of Khaybar by force. Abū Dāwūd (2) transmitted it.

Abū Dāwūd then said (3): ‘It was read before al-Ḥāriṯ ibn Miskīn while I was present: Ibn Wahb informed you; Mālik ibn Anas narrated to me, from Ibn Shihāb:
“Some of Khaybar was taken by force (ʿanwatan) and some by treaty; al-Katībah was mostly taken by force, though part of it was treaty land.”’

I asked Mālik, ‘What is al-Katībah?’
He replied, ‘It is the land of Khaybar; it contains forty thousand date-palms (ʿadhq).’

Abū Dāwūd added: ‘Al-ʿadhq means a date-palm, whereas al-ʿidhq refers to the cluster of dates.’

For this reason al-Bukhārī (5) said: ‘Muḥammad ibn Bashshār narrated to us; Ḥaramī narrated to us; Shuʿbah narrated to us; ʿUmārah narrated to us, from ʿIkrimah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
“When Khaybar was conquered, we said: Now at last we shall eat our fill of dates.”’

He likewise related: ‘Al-Ḥasan narrated to us; Qurrah ibn Ḥabīb narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār narrated to us, from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said:
“We never ate our fill—meaning of dates—until Khaybar was opened.”’

Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (6) said: ‘Al-Shiqq and al-Naṭāṭ fell within the Muslims’ shares—al-Shiqq comprising thirteen shares and Naṭāṭ five shares—making a total of eighteen shares divided into one thousand eight hundred portions, which were then assigned to those who had witnessed al-Ḥudaybiyyah, of those who…’