The Messenger of Allah ﷺ wrote a document concerning zakat but did not send it out to his agents before he passed away. He kept it attached to his sword. When he died, Abu Bakr acted upon it until he passed away, then Umar acted upon it until he passed away.It contained the following, for every five camels, one sheep is due, for ten, two sheep, for fifteen, three sheep, for twenty, four sheep, and for twenty-five, a one-year-old female camel.My father said, "Then an illness came upon me while I was in the gathering of Abbad bin Awwam, so I wrote down the rest of the hadith. I think I did not properly grasp some of it, so I became uncertain about the remaining portion of the hadith and left it out."
حدثنا عباد بن العوام حدثنا سفيان بن حسين عن الزهري عن سالم
أن رسول الله ﷺ كتب كتاب الصدقة فلم يخرجه إلى عماله حتى قبض فقرنه بسيفه فلما قبض عمل به أبو بكر رضي الله عنه حتى قبض ثم عمر حتى قبض فكان فيه في خمس من الإبل شاة وفي عشر شاتان وفي خمس عشرة ثلاث شياه وفي عشرين أربع شياه وفي خمس وعشرين ابنة مخاض قال أبي ثم أصابتني علة في مجلس عباد بن العوام فكتبت تمام الحديث فأحسبني لم أفهم بعضه فشككت في بقية الحديث فتركته
Its isnad is sahih. Abbad bin Awwam bin Umar Wasiti is trustworthy, one of the teachers of Ahmad. Saeed bin Sulayman said, "He was among the noble men in every one of his affairs." Sufyan bin Husayn is Wasiti, we have already discussed his reliability and his narration from Zuhri. The takhrij of the hadith will come at 4634.What Imam Ahmad did, leaving out the rest of the hadith when he had doubt about part of it, since he was afflicted by some difficulty in the gathering of his teacher Abbad, is the practice of the trustworthy narrators of hadith, the memorizers of the sunnah, and the bearers of knowledge. It shows their caution and carefulness in transmission, contrary to what the ignorant followers of the orientalists suppose, which has led them to deny everything and cast doubt on everything, while they have no knowledge.