Aslam Abū ʿImrān said: "We set out from Medina, intending to reach Constantinople, (and ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir was in charge of the people of Egypt) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd was in charge of the group, while the Byzantines had their backs against the city wall. A man from among us charged at the enemy, and the people said: 'Stop, stop! There is no deity but Allāh! He is throwing himself into destruction!' Then Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī said: (You interpret this verse as if a man fighting and seeking martyrdom, or exerting himself, is throwing himself into destruction!) This verse was revealed concerning us, the Anṣār, when Allāh granted victory to His Prophet and Islam was established. We said (secretly among ourselves, away from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ): 'Let us stay with our wealth and improve it.' So Allāh revealed (And spend in the way of Allāh and do not throw yourselves into destruction) (Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:195). Throwing ourselves into destruction means staying with our wealth and improving it while abandoning jihād. Abū ʿImrān said: "Abū Ayyūb continued to strive in the way of Allāh until he was buried in Constantinople."

- "We set out from Medina intending to reach Constantinople (and ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir was in charge of the people of Egypt) and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khālid ibn al-Walīd was in charge of the group, while the Byzantines had their backs against the city wall. A man from among us charged at the enemy, and the people said: 'Stop, stop! There is no deity but Allāh! He is throwing himself into destruction!' Then Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī said: (You interpret this verse as if a man fighting and seeking martyrdom, or exerting himself, is throwing himself into destruction!) This verse was revealed concerning us, the Anṣār, when Allāh granted victory to His Prophet and Islam was established. We said (secretly among ourselves, away from the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ): 'Let us stay with our wealth and improve it.' So Allāh revealed (And spend in the way of Allāh and do not throw yourselves into destruction) (Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:195). Throwing ourselves into destruction means staying with our wealth and improving it while abandoning jihād. Abū ʿImrān said: Abū Ayyūb continued to strive in the way of Allāh until he was buried in Constantinople." It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (1/393) and Ibn Abī Ḥātim in his "Tafsīr" (1/10/2) and al-Ḥākim (2/275) who said: "Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs" and al-Dhahabī agreed with him, but they were mistaken, for the two Shaykhs did not narrate from this Aslam. The ḥadīth is only authentic.