and said, “We have sworn an oath to them; if you wish, we will fight alongside you.” He replied—then cited it with the wording: “We shall honour our covenant with them and seek Allah’s help against them.”

Al-Walīd ibn Jamīʿ likewise narrated it: Abū al-Ṭufayl reported to us from Ḥudhayfah ibn al-Yamān, who said: “Nothing prevented me from attending Badr except that my father, Ḥusayl, and I set out and were captured by the disbelievers of Quraysh. They said, ‘You intend to join Muḥammad.’ We replied, ‘We do not intend to join him; we intend only to go to Medina.’ So they took from us Allah’s covenant and solemn pledge that we would go on to Medina and not fight alongside him. We then came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and informed him of what had happened. He said: ‘Go back; we shall honour our covenant with them …’”

Muslim (5/177) and al-Ḥākim (3/201–202) also narrated it, as did Aḥmad (5/395). Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic, but neither of the two recorded it!” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him. Yet they were mistaken in two respects:

First, he claimed it as an addition to Muslim, although Muslim had in fact narrated it.

Second, he merely declared it authentic without qualification, whereas it meets Muslim’s conditions.

2192 — “No zakat is due on fewer than five camels, nor is anything due on four. Once they reach five, one sheep is due for them, up to nine. Once they reach ten, two sheep are due, up to fourteen. Once they reach fifteen, three sheep are due, up to nineteen. Once they reach twenty, four sheep are due, up to twenty-four. Once they reach twenty-five, a bint makhāḍ (a female camel in its second year) is due, up to thirty-five. If no bint makhāḍ is available, then an ibn labūn