It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "One of the prophets fought against the people of a town, until, when he was about to conquer it, he feared that the sun would set. So he said to the sun: O sun, you too are bound (by Allah's command) and I too am bound; I adjure you by my sanctity, stop for an hour of the day. The narrator says: So Allah held it back until he conquered the town. And (among the earlier nations) the rule was that when they obtained spoils of war, they would offer them as a sacrifice, and then fire would come (from the sky) and consume it (thereby accepting it). But this time, when they set down the spoils, the fire did not come to consume it. At this they said: O Prophet of Allah, why has our sacrifice not been accepted? He said: There has been treachery (theft of the spoils) among you. They asked: How can we know who has the stolen goods? He said: You are twelve tribes; let the chief of every tribe pledge allegiance to me. So the chief of every tribe pledged allegiance to him, and that prophet's hand stuck to the hand of one man among them. He said: The treachery is with your tribe. The man asked: How can I know with which man it is? He said: Call your tribe and take their pledge one by one. So he did so, and his hand stuck to the hand of one man. He asked: Do you have the stolen goods? He said: Yes, I have them. He asked: What is it? He said: It is the head of a bull made of gold; I liked it, so I concealed it. So he brought it and placed it among the spoils, and then the fire came and consumed it." At this Ka'b al-Ahbar said: Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth; by Allah, it is like this in the Book of Allah, that is, in the Torah. He asked: O Abu Hurayrah, did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) tell you which prophet it was? He said: No. Ka'b said: He was Yusha' bin Nun (peace be upon him). Then he asked: Did he tell you which town it was? (He said: No.) Ka'b said: It was the city of Ariha (Jericho). This hadith is gharib and sahih (rare but authentic), but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.