Bukair bin Sulayman (may Allah have mercy on him) says: We were in a battle in the West with Sayyiduna Muawiyah bin Hudaij (may Allah be pleased with him). He distributed the spoils of war among the army, and the noble Companions were also present with us, but no one objected except Jabalah bin Amr Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him); he objected.

Sayyiduna Habib bin Maslamah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that at the beginning of the attack, he gave one third (of the spoils of war) as a reward.

Sayyiduna Habib bin Maslamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) granted one third and one fourth (of the spoils of war) as a reward. Ubaydullah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: When I mentioned this hadith, Sulayman bin Yasar (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "At the beginning of the attack, one fourth was given, and upon return, one third (as a reward) was given."

Imam Mak'hool (may Allah have mercy on him) says: I asked Hajjaj bin Abdullah Al-Nazari about the reward (nafl) in the spoils of war, so he said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave one third and one fourth as nafl." (Imam Mak'hool says) Due to his greatness, I did not have the courage to ask him for the chain of narration.

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) dispatched a detachment towards Najd, which obtained many camels as spoils of war. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave each of them one camel as a voluntary gift, even though they had not set out with any specific promise of such a gift, and their shares amounted to twelve camels each.

Muhammad bin Uthman (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Raja bin Haywah, ‘Ubadah bin Nusay, ‘Adi bin ‘Adi Kindi, Mak’hool, Sulaiman bin Musa, Yazid bin Yazid bin Jabir, Yahya bin Jabir, Qasim bin Abdur Rahman, Yazid bin Abi Malik, Mutawakkil bin Laith, Ibn ‘Utaybah, and Muharibi all said:“Nafl (reward) is given only from the first portion of the spoils of war.”

Imam Sa'id bin al-Musayyib, may Allah have mercy on him, said: "They used to give that nafl (voluntary charity) only from the khums (one-fifth share)."

Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "O my nephew! Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) gave my brother Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with them both) Layla bint Judi (one of the slave women of Damascus) as a gift. I found her with me, and I have never known any price for such beauty, perfection, and excellence as hers."

Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Sayyiduna Bara’ bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) confronted the marzban of Za’rah in Bahrain, struck him with a spear, broke his back, and killed him. Then he took his horse and the spoils of war. When Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) had performed the Zuhr prayer, he went to the house of Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said:“We did not use to take out a fifth (khums) from the spoils, but the spoils of Bara’ are so valuable that I am taking out a fifth from it.”Thus, in Islam, the spoils of Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) were the first to have a fifth taken from them.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The war booty of Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) was about thirty thousand or close to it.