Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Qais bin Basheer (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that my father used to sit in the gathering of Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) in Damascus. In Damascus, there was an Ansari companion named Ibn al-Hanzaliyah. One day, when I was with Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him), he passed by us. Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Tell us something that will benefit us but not harm you." He said that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent a detachment for jihad. When they returned, one of them came and sat in the gathering of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and after a while, he said to the person next to him: "If you had seen the scene when we met the enemy, so-and-so struck the enemy with a spear saying, 'Take this, I am a Ghifari slave.'" The other person said, "I think he has wasted his reward." The first person said, "I do not think there is any harm in it." They disputed and differed over this matter, and the issue reached the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Subhan Allah!" (expressing amazement) "There is no harm; he will be given reward and he will be praised." The narrator says that I saw Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) became very happy upon hearing this, to the extent that he stood up and was about to sit on his knees and asked, "Did you yourself hear this from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)?" He replied, "Yes, I myself heard it."