Narrated Abyad ibn Hammal: Abyad spoke to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ about sadaqah when he came along with a deputation to him. He replied: O brother of Saba', sadaqah is unavoidable. He said: We cultivated cotton, Messenger of Allah. The people of Saba' scattered, and there remained only a few at Ma'arib. He therefore concluded a treaty of peace with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to give seventy suits of cloth, equivalent to the price of the Yemeni garments known as al-mu'afir, to be paid every year on behalf of those people of Saba' who remained at Ma'arib. They continued to pay them till the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died. The governors after the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ broke the treaty concluded by Abyad by Hammal with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to give seventy suits of garments. Abu Bakr then revived it as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had done till Abu Bakr died. When Abu Bakr died, it was discontinued and the sadaqah was levied.