The above mentioned tradition has also been transmitted by Malik through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.This version adds:
They have their stomachs:They can go down to water and eat trees.He did not say about the stray sheep:take it.About a find he said : Make it known for a year; if it’s owner comes, (give it to him), otherwise use it yourself.This version has not the word : “ spend it”.Abu Dawud said : This tradition has been narrated by al-Thawri, Sulaiman bin Bilal, and Hammad bin Salamah on the authority of Rabi ‘ ah in a similar manner.They did not mention the word “take it”.
