Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) dispatched an expedition and he gave a man a sword to wear. When we returned, I never saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reproach us for anything as much as he did for this matter. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Were you incapable that when I appointed a man as your leader and he did not act upon the command I gave him or refrained from what I forbade him, you could have appointed someone else in his place who would have carried out my command, the command that I had issued?