diff --git a/polkadot/xcm/src/v3/multiasset.rs b/polkadot/xcm/src/v3/multiasset.rs
index dc88eb60b7c12..b078c9f456777 100644
--- a/polkadot/xcm/src/v3/multiasset.rs
+++ b/polkadot/xcm/src/v3/multiasset.rs
@@ -587,13 +587,10 @@ impl MaxEncodedLen for MultiAssets {
 
 impl Decode for MultiAssets {
 	fn decode<I: codec::Input>(input: &mut I) -> Result<Self, codec::Error> {
-		let mut bounded_instructions =
+		let bounded_instructions =
 			BoundedVec::<MultiAsset, ConstU32<{ MAX_ITEMS_IN_MULTIASSETS as u32 }>>::decode(input)?;
-
-		bounded_instructions.sort();
-
 		Self::from_sorted_and_deduplicated(bounded_instructions.into_inner())
-			.map_err(|()| "Duplicate items".into())
+			.map_err(|()| "Out of order".into())
 	}
 }
 
@@ -685,7 +682,6 @@ impl MultiAssets {
 	pub fn from_sorted_and_deduplicated_skip_checks(r: Vec<MultiAsset>) -> Self {
 		Self::from_sorted_and_deduplicated(r).expect("Invalid input r is not sorted/deduped")
 	}
-
 	/// Create a new instance of `MultiAssets` from a `Vec<MultiAsset>` whose contents are sorted
 	/// and which contain no duplicates.
 	///
diff --git a/polkadot/xcm/src/v4/asset.rs b/polkadot/xcm/src/v4/asset.rs
index fe792e5748551..ed2c8c8671d96 100644
--- a/polkadot/xcm/src/v4/asset.rs
+++ b/polkadot/xcm/src/v4/asset.rs
@@ -624,13 +624,10 @@ impl MaxEncodedLen for Assets {
 
 impl Decode for Assets {
 	fn decode<I: codec::Input>(input: &mut I) -> Result<Self, codec::Error> {
-		let mut bounded_instructions =
+		let bounded_instructions =
 			BoundedVec::<Asset, ConstU32<{ MAX_ITEMS_IN_ASSETS as u32 }>>::decode(input)?;
-
-		bounded_instructions.sort();
-
 		Self::from_sorted_and_deduplicated(bounded_instructions.into_inner())
-			.map_err(|()| "Duplicate items".into())
+			.map_err(|()| "Out of order".into())
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/polkadot/xcm/src/v5/asset.rs b/polkadot/xcm/src/v5/asset.rs
index ef1a543ae7571..9888e339bbce1 100644
--- a/polkadot/xcm/src/v5/asset.rs
+++ b/polkadot/xcm/src/v5/asset.rs
@@ -562,13 +562,10 @@ impl MaxEncodedLen for Assets {
 
 impl Decode for Assets {
 	fn decode<I: codec::Input>(input: &mut I) -> Result<Self, codec::Error> {
-		let mut bounded_instructions =
+		let bounded_instructions =
 			BoundedVec::<Asset, ConstU32<{ MAX_ITEMS_IN_ASSETS as u32 }>>::decode(input)?;
-
-		bounded_instructions.sort();
-
 		Self::from_sorted_and_deduplicated(bounded_instructions.into_inner())
-			.map_err(|()| "Duplicate items".into())
+			.map_err(|()| "Out of order".into())
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/prdoc/stable2512/pr_9842.prdoc b/prdoc/stable2512/pr_9842.prdoc
deleted file mode 100644
index 890567c7957d6..0000000000000
--- a/prdoc/stable2512/pr_9842.prdoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-title: 'xcm: Do not require `Asset` to be sorted on `decode`'
-doc:
-- audience: Runtime User
-  description: |-
-    `Asset` was requiring that all the assets are sorted at decoding. This is quite confusing for people writingg frontends, because this is not really documented anywhere. There are also only at max 20 assets available, we can just make everyones life easier and always sort the assets after decoding.
-crates:
-- name: staging-xcm
-  bump: patch