Waleed bin Muslim narrates: I asked Abu Amr about giving a share to a person who did not participate in the conquest and battle. He replied: Such people will not be given any share. Have you not considered? Two groups enter (the fort) either by the same route or by two different routes. One of them obtains the spoils of war and the other does not. One group is the strength of the other, but one group does not share in the spoils of the other group, whether both have obtained the spoils or only one of them has. The decision between them is made in this way. Waleed says: I mentioned this to Saeed bin Abdul Aziz, and he informed me: I heard Zuhri narrate from Saeed bin Musayyib, from Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him), this statement: Sayyiduna Saeed bin Al-Aas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated this hadith: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) dispatched a military expedition towards Najd, and the commander of this expedition was Sayyiduna Aban bin Saeed bin Al-Aas (may Allah be pleased with him). After Khyber was conquered, he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Do not give them a share (from the spoils of war). So Aban became angry and expressed his displeasure. The narrator states: He pointed a spear at him, so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Aban! Wait! The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) refused to give those people anything (from the spoils of war). (Imam Ibn Hibban, may Allah have mercy on him, says:) When an army conquers a territory of Allah’s enemies, and then another Muslim army joins them after the conquest, it is necessary that the spoils of war be distributed only among those who achieved the conquest. (In this distribution) a horseman will be given three shares: two shares for his horse and one share for the horseman. A foot soldier will receive one share. Those who came after the conquest will not receive anything from the spoils of war. However, if the army that joined later came for assistance, then the ruling will be different, because in that case both armies will be considered as one army, as their origin is one, and if the help of the second army was needed in that battle, they would have provided it. In this case, all of them will be given a share. As for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) giving a share to the people of the Ash’ar tribe after the conquest of Khyber, that share was given from the“khums”(one-fifth). That“khums”which Allah Almighty granted to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The purpose was to incline those people. It was not that they were given a share from the spoils of Khyber, even though they did not participate in its conquest.