We conquered Makkah, then we marched out to fight at Hunayn. The polytheists came forward in the finest battle lines I had ever seen. The cavalry was lined up first, then the fighters, then the women behind them, then the sheep, then the camels.We were a great multitude, numbering six thousand, and on the flank of our cavalry was Khalid bin Walid. Our cavalry began to wheel back behind us, and before long our cavalry broke ranks. The bedouins fled, along with others whom we knew among the people.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ called out, "Muhajirun, to me! Muhajirun, to me!" Then he called, "Ansar, to me! Ansar, to me!"Anas said, "This is a hadith from my paternal uncles."He said, We replied, "At your service, Messenger of Allah!"The Messenger of Allah ﷺ advanced. By Allah, we had not even reached them before Allah routed them. We seized that wealth, then set out for Taif and besieged its people for forty nights. Then we returned to Makkah and made camp, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ began giving each man a hundred camels.
افتتحنا مكة ثم إنا غزونا حنينا فجاء المشركون بأحسن صفوف رأيت، قال: فصفت الخيل، ثم صفت المقاتلة، ثم صفت النساء من وراء ذلك، ثم صفت الغنم، ثم صفت النعم، قال: ونحن بشر كثير، قد بلغنا ستة آلاف، وعلى مجنبة خيلنا خالد بن الوليد، قال فجعلت خيلنا تلوي خلف ظهورنا، فلم نلبث أن انكشفت خيلنا، وفرت الأعراب، ومن نعلم من الناس، قال: فنادي رسول الله ﷺ: يال المهاجرين! يال المهاجرين. ثم قال يال الأنصار! يال الأنصار! قال: قال أنس: هذا حديث عمية، قال: قلنا: لبيك يا رسول الله! قال: فتقدم رسول الله ﷺ، قال: فايم الله! ما أتيناهم حتى هزمهم الله، قال: فقبضنا ذلك المال، ثم انطلقنا إلى الطائف فحاصرناهم أربعين ليلة، ثم رجعنا إلى مكة فنزلنا، قال: فجعل رسول الله ﷺ يعطي الرجل المائة من الإبل.
Except for his saying, "six thousand," which Muslim narrated in the Book of Zakat (1059:136) through several routes from Mutamir bin Sulayman, from his father, who said, "Sumayt narrated to me, from Anas," and he related it. Muslim said, the rest of the hadith is similar to the hadith of Qatada, Abu Tayah, and Hisham bin Zayd, meaning the hadith mentioned previously, which states that their number was ten thousand, along with the freed captives, who numbered two thousand. As for his saying in this hadith, "we reached six thousand," this contains an error from one of the narrators, and it most likely came from Sumayt, for he did not reach the rank of the reliable and precise narrators. Muslim has recorded nothing from him except this hadith.