Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29243

Abdul bin Humaid told us, Muawiyah bin Amr told me, on the authority of Zaida, on the authority of Al-Amash, on the authority of Abu Salih, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. And he said, “The spoils were not lawful for anyone with black heads before you. Fire used to come down from the sky and consume them.” He said. Suleiman Al-Amash, who says this except Abu Hurairah now. When the day of Badr came, they fell into the spoils before they were lawful for them, so God sent down God Almighty: (If it had not been for a Book from God, a great punishment had previously touched you for what you took.) Abu Issa said: This is a good, authentic, and strange hadith. From the hadith of Al-Amash...