The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sleeping when he found a date under his side, so he took it and ate it. Later, toward the end of the night, he began tossing about in distress, which alarmed one of his wives.He said, "I found a date under my side and ate it, and I feared it might have been from the dates of charity."
أن رسول الله ﷺ كان نائما فوجد تمرة تحت جنبه فأخذها فأكلها، ثم جعل يتضور من آخر الليل وفزع لذلك بعض أزواجه فقال: إني وجدت تمرة تحت جنبي فأكلتها فخشيت أن تكون من تمر الصدقة.
Imam Ahmad narrated it (6720) from Abu Bakr Hanafi, who said, Usama bin Zayd narrated to us, from Amr bin Shuayb, from his father, from his grandfather, and he related it. Its chain is hasan because of Usama bin Zayd, who is Laythi, about whom there is disagreement, though his hadith is hasan, and Muslim narrated from him. Abu Bakr Hanafi is Abdul-Kabir bin Abdul-Majid, a trustworthy narrator among the narrators relied upon by the community of scholars.Haythami mentioned it in Majma (3/89) and said, "Ahmad narrated it and its narrators are trustworthy."There is no contradiction between this hadith and the preceding hadith of Anas, because this hadith may belong to an earlier time, and when he ate it, it troubled him, so he stopped doing so afterward, as related in the hadith of Anas. His ﷺ eating of it was permissible, because the default ruling for whatever was in his house is that it is permissible until evidence is established for its prohibition.As for what was narrated from Abu Umayr, or Abu Umayra, who said, "We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ one day when a man came with a tray of dates on it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'What is this, charity or a gift?' He said, 'Charity.' He said, 'Then present it to the people.'" Hasan was rolling in the dust before him, and the boy took a date and put it in his mouth. The Prophet ﷺ put his finger into the boy's mouth, pulled the date out, and threw it away, then said, "We, the family of Muhammad, charity is not lawful for us." I said to Maruf, "Is Abu Umayr your grandfather?" He said, "My father's grandfather."There is weakness in it due to the unknown identity of a narrator. Imam Ahmad narrated it (16002, 16003), and Tabarani in Kabir (5/76), both from the hadith of Muarrif bin Wasil, who said, "Hafsa bint Talq, a woman from the neighborhood, aged ninety, narrated to me from Abu Umayr," and he related it. It contains Hafsa bint Talq, from whom no one narrated except Muarrif bin Wasil, and no one deemed her trustworthy.Haythami mentioned it in Majma (3/89) and said, "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it, except that Ahmad named him Usayd bin Malik, while Tabarani named him Rashid. It contains Hafsa bint Talq, from whom no one narrated except Muarrif bin Wasil, and no one deemed her trustworthy." End.