It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from the Battle of Hunayn and was still on the way, the people began demanding (spoils of war) from him (peace and blessings be upon him) and crowded around him (peace and blessings be upon him) so much that his (peace and blessings be upon him) she-camel took fright, and an acacia tree caught hold of his (peace and blessings be upon him) cloak (that is, the cloak got entangled in its thorny branches). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Give me back my cloak. Do you fear miserliness from me? By Allah, if Allah Almighty were to grant you livestock as numerous as the thorny trees of Tihamah, I would distribute it all among you, and then you would find me neither miserly, nor cowardly, nor a liar." Then, when it was time to distribute the khumus (the one-fifth share), a man came to him (peace and blessings be upon him) who had taken a thread or a needle (from the spoils), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Return even the needle and the thread, for 'stealing from the spoils of war is a disgrace, a fire and a shame for the one who does it on the Day of Resurrection.'" Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) picked up a hair from the top of a camel's hump and said: "I have no share in the spoils (fay') that Allah Almighty has granted you, not even the like of this hair, except the khumus, and that khumus too is returned to you."
Imam al-Tabarani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "No one narrated this hadith from Amr bin Dinar (may Allah have mercy on him) except Sufyan bin Uyaynah (may Allah have mercy on him), and Sa'id bin Abd al-Rahman al-Makhzumi (may Allah have mercy on him) is alone in narrating it."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الأوسط / باب الألف / 1864
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