Salama bin Kuhail reported: I heard Sowaid bin Ghafala say: I went out, and also Zaid bin Suhan and Salman bin Rabi'a for Jihad, and I found a whip and took it up. They said to me: Leave it. I said: No, but I will make announcement of it and if its owner comes (then I will return that), otherwise I will use it, and I refused them. When we returned from Jihad, by a good fortune for me, I performed Pilgrimage. I came to Madinah and met Ubayy bin Ka'b, and related to him the affair of the whip and their opinion (the opinion of Zaid bin Suhan and Salman bin Rabi'a) about it (i. e. I should throw it). Thereupon he said: I found a money bag during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) which contained one hundred dinars. I came to him along with it, and he said: Make an announcement of it for one year; so I announced it, but did not find anyone who could (claim it after) recognising it. I again came to him and he said: Make announcement for one year. So I made announcement of it, but I found none who could recognise it. I came to him he said: Make announcement of it for one year. I made announcement of that but did not find one who could recognise it, whereupon he said: Preserve (in your mind) its number, its bag and its strap, and if its owner comes (then return that to him), otherwise make use of it. So I made use of that. I (Shu'bah) met him (Salama bin Kuhail) after this in Makkah, and he said: I do not know whether he said three years or one year.

Shu'bah reported: Salama bin Kuhail informed me or he informed people and I was among them. He said: I heard Sawaid bin Ghafala who reported: I went out along with Zaid bin Suhan and Salman bin Rabi'a, and found a whip, the rest of the hadith is the same up to the words: "I made use of that." Shu'bah said: I heard him say after ten years, that he made an announcement of it for one year.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Salama bin Kuhail through different chains of transmitters. In their ahadith, it is three years, except in the hadith of Hammid bin Salama it is two years or three years. In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Sufyan and Zaid bin Abu Unaisa and Hammid bin Salama (the words are): "If someone comes and informs you about the number (of articles) of the bag and the straps, then give that to him." Sufyan has made this addition in the narration of Waki': "Otherwise it is like your property." And in the narration of Ibn Numair the words are: "Otherwise make use of that."