as their shares. Our evidence is what Habib ibn Maslamah al-Fihri narrated, who said: I witnessed the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) grant an extra share (nafal) of a quarter at the beginning and a third upon returning. In another wording: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to grant an extra share of a quarter after the fifth, and a third after the fifth when returning. Both were recorded by Abu Dawud (7). It is also narrated from Ubadah ibn al-Samit that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to grant as an extra share a quarter at the beginning and a third upon returning. Recorded by al-Tirmidhi (8), who said: This is a hasan gharib (good but singular) hadith. In another version, he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to grant them a quarter as an extra share when they went out at the beginning, and he would grant them a third as an extra share when they returned. Recorded by al-Khallal with his chain of narration. Al-Athram narrated with his chain of narration from Jarir ibn Abd Allah al-Bajali that when he came to Umar with his people, Umar said to him: Would you be willing to come to Kufa, and you shall have a third after the fifth of every land and thing? Ibn al-Mundhir also mentioned this from Umar. Ibrahim al-Nakha'i said: He grants the detachment a third or a quarter, encouraging them with that. As for the statement of Amr ibn Shu'ayb, Makhul said to him when he said: "There is no nafal after the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)" and mentioned to him the hadith of Habib ibn Maslamah: "Eating raisins in Ta'if has distracted you." What was established for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is established for the Imams after him, provided no evidence has arisen to restrict it to him exclusively. As for the hadith of Ibn Umar, it is an argument against them, for one camel out of twelve is a portion of thirteen, while the fifth of the fifth is a portion of twenty-five. A portion of thirteen is greater; thus, it is inconceivable to take a thing from what is less than it. This is confirmed by the fact that if the twelve represent four-fifths, and the camel is one-third of a fifth, then how is it conceivable to take a third of a fifth from a fifth of the fifth? This is impossible; therefore, it is established that it must be from other than that, or that the nafal was for the detachment to the exclusion of the rest of the army. Furthermore, what we have narrated is explicit regarding the ruling, so it cannot be countered by something derived that admits a meaning other than what the one who derived it interpreted it to have.