The Messenger of Allah ﷺ led the campaign of the Conquest, the conquest of Mecca. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ set out with the Muslims who were with him, and they fought at Hunayn, where Allah granted victory to His religion and to the Muslims. On that day, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave Safwan bin Umaya a hundred head of livestock, then another hundred, then another hundred.Ibn Shihab said, Saeed bin Musayab told me that Safwan said, "By Allah, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave me what he gave me when he was the most hated of people to me, and he kept giving to me until he became the most beloved of people to me."
غزا رسول الله ﷺ غزوة الفتح- فتح مكة-، ثم خرج رسول الله ﷺ بمن معه من المسلمين فاقتتلوا بحنين فنصر الله دينه والمسلمين، وأعطى رسول الله ﷺ يومئذ صفوان بن أمية مائة من النعم ثم مائة ثم مائة. قال ابن شهاب: حدثني سعيد بن المسيب، أن صفوان قال: والله لقد أعطاني رسول الله ﷺ ما أعطاني وإنه لأبغض الناس إلي فما برح يعطيني حتى إنه لأحب الناس إلي.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Virtues (2313) from Abu Tahir Ahmad bin Amr Ibn Sarh, who said, Abdullah bin Wahb reported to us, Yunus informed me, from Ibn Shihab, and he related it. Tirmidhi also narrated it (666) through the route of Yahya bin Adam, from Ibn Mubarak, from Yunus bin Yazid, from Zuhri, from Saeed bin Musayab, from Safwan bin Umaya, who said, and he related it in brief.Tirmidhi said, "The hadith of Safwan was narrated by Maamar and others from Zuhri, from Saeed bin Musayab, that Safwan bin Umaya said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave me.' This version seems more sahih and more fitting, for it is simply Saeed bin Musayab, that Safwan bin Umaya..." This contains an indication that Saeed bin Musayab did not hear this hadith directly from Safwan bin Umaya, because the correct wording is "that Safwan said," as opposed to "from," since "from" indicates a connected chain when the narrator is not one of those known for concealing defects in transmission.Tirmidhi then said, "The scholars have differed regarding giving to those whose hearts are to be won over. Most scholars held that they should not be given anything, saying that they were a people during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, whom he sought to win over to Islam until they embraced it, and they did not consider it appropriate to give them zakat today for a similar purpose. This is the view of Sufyan Thawri, the people of Kufa, and others, and it is also held by Ahmad and Ishaq. Some scholars said that whoever today is in a situation similar to theirs, and the leader deems it appropriate to win them over to Islam by giving to them, may do so, and this is the view of Shafii." End of quote.Ibn Arabi said in his commentary on Tirmidhi (3/172), "Some said, if the leader needs to do this now, he may do so, and this is what I consider correct, and Shafii held this view. The Prophet ﷺ said, 'Islam began as something strange, and it will return to being something strange.' Everything the Prophet ﷺ did was for a purpose, a need, and a reason, so it follows that when the reason and the need are removed, the ruling is removed as well, and when they return, the ruling returns." End of quote.Zuhri said, "I do not know of anything that abrogated the ruling concerning those whose hearts are to be won over." The number of people the Prophet ﷺ gave to from among those whose hearts were to be won over reached about fifty individuals. Ibn Jawzi counted them in Tanqih, and Saghani did so as well in a separate work. See Talkhis (1417).