The spoils of war arecounted and then distributed among the soldiers who have participated in the fight. The person who has the authority to distribute the spoils is the commander of the militaryoperation or the one whom hedelegates for this responsibility. In this hadeeth, ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet ﷺ sent an expeditiontowards Najd, which is a regionlocated in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula. This expedition is referred to in the hadeeth as Sariyyah, which is a division from the army that consists of no more than four hundred fighters, and ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was a participant in this one.He reports that they acquired many camels and that the share of each one of them was eleven or twelve camels.The commander of the army gave everyone amongst them their share and granted them an extra camel from the spoils before their division. In a narration in Saheeh Muslim, it reads, “The Messenger of Allah gave us each an extra camel.”This extra share is called in Arabic Anfaal, and they are gifts from the spoils other than the share that is due to be divided so that he gave each one an extra amount above his share.That is because they did well in their fight; giving an additional amount is only for the one who does well in the war. The reconciliation of the meaning between the two narrations - where in one it says the commander of the expedition was the one who gave them an extra reward from the spoils, and in the other that the Prophet ﷺ was the one who gave them above their allocated share - is that the commander of the expedition gave an extra reward from the spoils, while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ permitted him to so; thus it is allowed to attribute this act to each one of them in that respect. Frome the benefits of this hadeeth is learning that ifa division from the army acquires spoils during the time it was separated from the army, then the acquired spoils are to be shared with the rest of the army.However, if it encamps in one town while the rest of the army is stationed in a different town, then it exclusively receives the spoils without sharing it with them. This hadeeth establishesthe legitimacy of giving extra rewards from the spoils in order to motivate the fighters to do well in war..