When Allah granted His Messenger victory over Makkah, he stood among the people, praised Allah and glorified Him, then said, "Allah held back the elephant from Makkah and gave authority over it to His Messenger and the believers. It was not made lawful for anyone before me, and it was made lawful for me only for an hour of a day, and it will not be lawful for anyone after me. So its game must not be driven away, its thorny plants must not be cut, and its lost property may not be picked up except by one who will announce it. Whoever has a relative killed has the choice of two options, either compensation is paid, or retaliation is taken."Abbas said, "Except for idhkhir grass, for we use it for our graves and our houses."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Except for idhkhir."Then Abu Shah, a man from the people of Yemen, stood up and said, "Write it down for me, Messenger of Allah."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Write it down for Abu Shah."
لما فتح الله على رسوله مكة، قام في الناس فحمد الله وأثنى عليه ثم قال: إن الله حبس عن مكة الفيل، وسلط عليها رسوله والمؤمنين، فإنها لا تحل لأحد كان قبلي، وإنها أحلت لي ساعة من نهار، وإنها لا تحل لأحد بعدي، فلا ينفر صيدها، ولا يختلى شوكها، ولا تحل ساقطتها إلا لمنشد، ومن قتل له قتيل فهو بخير النظرين، إما أن يفدى، وإما أن يقيد فقال العباس: إلا الإذخر فإنا نجعله لقبورنا وبيوتنا فقال رسول الله ﷺ: إلا الإذخر فقام أبو شاه رجل من أهل اليمن فقال: اكتبوا لى يا رسول الله، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: اكتبوا لأبي شاه.
Bukhari narrated it in the section on lost property (2434) and Muslim in the Hajj (1355), both from the hadith of Walid bin Muslim, who said, Uzai narrated to us, Yahya bin Abu Kathir narrated to me, Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman narrated to me, from Abu Hurairah, and he related it.Walid said, I asked Uzai, "What did he mean by his saying, 'Write it down for me, O Messenger of Allah'?" He said, "This is the sermon that he heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ."Both of them, Bukhari (112) and Muslim, also narrated it from the hadith of Shayban, from Yahya bin Abu Kathir, from Abu Salama, from Abu Hurairah, that Khuza killed a man from Banu Layth in the year of the conquest of Makkah, in retaliation for one of their own whom the Layth had killed. The Prophet ﷺ was informed of this, so he mounted his mount and delivered a sermon, saying, and he related something similar.