Al-Majdhūb informs ʿUthmān Diqna that around 900 camels have been seized by Abū Qarja as loot (ghanīma) from the Rashāyda. Most of them were distributed to the anṣār who participated to the raid (c. 700) and the rest were sent to the treasury in Tūkar (c. 200). Quite interestingly, of the last 200, a hundred were given to a merchant named al-ʿUtaybī, from whom 300 bags of grain had been taken to feed the detachment responsible for this raid.
After this, al-Majdhūb sent a letter to Abū Qarja to tell him that he had to cease dividing the loot as was previously done (four fifths for the fighters and one fifth for the treasury), according to the canonical Islamic practice. Indeed, the dire situation of the treasury does not allow for this anymore.
05/08/1307
