Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 39775 — The Battle of Hunayn and the reports

Iyas bin Salamah narrates from his father that he said: I took part in the campaign against Hawazin with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). We were eating our morning meal, most of our people were on foot and there were weak ones among us, when a man came riding a red camel. He pulled a leather rope from the rear of his (camel's) saddle and tied his camel with it; he was a young man. Then he came and ate with the people. When he saw their weakness and how few their mounts were, he ran off toward his camel, untied it, made it kneel, mounted it and then began to spur it on. A man from the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), from Banu Aslam, went after him on an ash-coloured she-camel, which was the best of the people's mounts. I ran after that man. I caught up with him when the head of the she-camel was at the camel's haunch and I was at the she-camel's haunch. Then I went forward, seized the camel's halter and made it kneel. As soon as it put its knees on the ground, I drew my sword and struck the man's head, and it flew off. Then I came leading his mount and whatever was on it, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to meet me. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who killed that man?" The people said: "Ibn al-Akwa'." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave his belongings to me.