English narration
Narrated by أبيض بن حمال المأربي
Narrated Abyad ibn Hammal: Abyad went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked him for assigning him (the mines of) salt as fief. (The narrator Ibn al-Mutawakkil said: which was in Ma'arib. ) So he assigned it to him as a fief. When he returned, a man in the meeting asked: Do you know what you have assigned him as a fief? You have assigned him the perennial spring water. So he took it back from him. He asked him about protecting land which had arak trees growing in it. He replied: He could have such as was beyond the region where the hoofs (of camels) went. The narrator Ibn al-Mutwakkil said: "that is the camel hoofs. "
النص العربي
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ الثَّقَفِيُّ ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ الْعَسْقَلَانِيُّ ، الْمَعْنَى وَاحِد أَنَّ مُحَمَّدَ بْنَ يَحْيَى بْنِ قَيْسٍ الْمَأْرِبِيَّ حَدَّثَهُمْ ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي ،عَنْ ثُمَامَةَ بْنِ شَرَاحِيلَ ، عَنْ سُمَيِّ بْنِ قَيْسٍ ، عَنْ شُمَيْرٍ ، قَالَ ابْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ ابْنِ عَبْدِ الْمَدَانِ ، عَنْ أَبْيَضَ بْنِ حَمَّالٍ ، أَنَّهُ وَفَدَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَاسْتَقْطَعَهُ الْمِلْحَ ، قَالَ ابْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ : الَّذِي بِمَأْرِبَ فَقَطَعَهُ لَهُ فَلَمَّا أَنْ وَلَّى ، قَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمَجْلِسِ : أَتَدْرِي مَا قَطَعْتَ لَهُ إِنَّمَا قَطَعْتَ لَهُ الْمَاءَ الْعِدَّ ، قَالَ : فَانْتَزَعَ مِنْهُ ، قَالَ وَسَأَلَهُ عَمَّا يُحْمَى مِنَ الأَرَاكِ ، قَالَ : مَا لَمْ تَنَلْهُ خِفَافٌ وَقَالَ ابْنُ الْمُتَوَكِّلِ : أَخْفَافُ الإِبِلِ .