Abu Hurairah (RA)reported. When Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, granted Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) victory over Makkah, he stood before people and praised and extolled Allah and then said: Verily Allah held back the elephants from Makkah and gave the domination of it to His Messenger and believers, and it (this territory) was not violable to anyone before me and it was made violable to me for an hour of a day, and it shall not be violable to anyone after me. So neither molest the game, nor weed out thorns from it. And it is not lawful for anyone to pick up a thing dropped but one who makes public announcement of it. And it a relative of anyone is killed he is entitled to opt for one of two things. Either he should be paid blood-money or he can take life as (a just retribution). 'Abbas (RA) said: Allah's Messenger, but Idhkhir (a kind of herbage), for we use it for our graves and for our houses, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: With the exception of Idhkhir. A person known as Abu Shah, one of the people of Yemen, stood up and said: Messenger of Allah, (kindly) write it for me. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said I Write it for Abu Shah. Walid said: I asked al-Auzai': What did his saying mean: "Write it for me, Messenger of Allah"? He said: This very address that he had heard from Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) .

Abu Hurairah (RA) reported: The people of the Khuza'ah tribe killed a man of the tribe of Laith in the Year of Victory as a retaliation for one whom they had killed (whom the people of the tribe of Laith had killed). It was reported to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). He mounted his camel and delivered this address: Verily Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, held back the Elephants from Makkah, and gave its domination to His Messenger and believers. Behold, it was not violable for anyone before me and it will not be violable for anyone after me. Behold, it was made violable for me for an hour of a day; and at this very hour it has again been made inviolable (for me as well as for others). So its thorns are not to be cut, its trees are not to be lopped, and (no one is allowed to) pick up a thing dropped, but the one who makes an announcement of it. And one whose fellow is killed is allowed to opt between two alternatives: either he should receive blood-money or get the life of the (murderer) in return. He (the narrator said): A person from the Yemen, who was called Abu Shah, came to him and said: Messenger of Allah, write it down for me, whereupon he (Allah's Messenger) said: Write it down for Abu Shah. One of the persons from among the Quraish also said: Except Idhkhir, for we use it in our houses and our graves. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Except Idhkhir.