Fourth report: On the authority of Abū al-Dardāʾ who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was asked about taking what the ruler gives. He replied,
“Whatever Allah brings to you from it without your asking for it and without you eyeing it covetously, accept it and treat it as your own wealth.”

Ahmad recorded it: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us; Hishām ibn Ḥassān al-Qurdūsī narrated to us; from Qays ibn Saʿd; from a man who transmitted it from him. He added:
Al-Ḥasan (al-Baṣrī) said, “There is no problem with it so long as you do not travel for it or set your sights on it.” Its transmitters are the transmitters of Muslim, except for the unnamed man.

Fifth report: On the authority of ʿĀʾidh ibn ʿAmr, traced back to the Prophet ﷺ:
“Whoever is offered a share of this provision without asking for it or yearning for it should broaden his own provision with it; but if he is already well supplied, let him pass it on to someone who needs it more than he does.”

Ahmad related it through several chains from Abū al-Ashhab, from ʿĀmir al-Aḥwal, who said: ʿĀʾidh ibn ʿAmr said … and he mentioned the report.

Its narrators are those found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, but the chain is broken. This ʿĀmir is ʿĀmir ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Aḥwal, and he did not meet ʿĀʾidh ibn ʿAmr, as al-Ḥāfiẓ states in Taqrīb. From this it becomes clear that al-Munḏirī’s statement—“Ahmad’s chain is sound and strong”—is not correct. His own teacher said in Majmaʿ:
“Ahmad and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr both narrated it, and al-Ṭabarānī words it, ‘Whoever is offered any portion of this provision,’ whereas Ahmad omits the word ‘portion.’ All of Ahmad’s narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: This is plainly deficient, for he failed to point out the defect of the broken chain. Moreover, the word “portion” is in fact present in every version recorded by Ahmad.