Al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1482 — Lost property (luqatah)

It is narrated from Ayyub bin Musa, from his father, or from a man, from his father, that he said to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him): I found a dinar and picked it up, until I had reached a hundred dinars. He said: "Announce it (publicly) for a year." So he announced it for a year, then came to him, and he said again: "Announce it for a year." Then he came to him the third time, and he said: "Announce it, then it is up to you what you do with it (that is, you then have full discretion over it)."