Chapter: The Prophet’s ﷺ Weaponry, Mounts, and Equipment

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim read to us, from Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad the judge, from Abū al-Qāsim Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad the ḥāfiẓ, who said: Sulaimān ibn Ibrāhīm the ḥāfiẓ and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Nīlī both informed us, saying: ʿAlī ibn al-Qāsim the reciter related to us; he said: Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Fāris the philologist related to us, who said:

The weapons of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ included Dhu al-Faqār, a sword he obtained on the Day of Badr. He also had a sword inherited from his father, and Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah presented him with a sword called al-ʿAḍb. From the spoils taken from Banū Qaynuqāʿ he acquired a qalʿiyy sword; another narration calls it al-Bittār and al-Lukhayf. He likewise possessed al-Mikhdham and al-Rasūb, making a total of eight swords.

Our teacher Sharf al-Dīn al-Dimyāṭī said: The first sword he owned was al-Maʾthūr, said to have been forged by the jinn. He inherited it from his father and brought it with him when he migrated to Medina. When he set out for Badr, Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah sent him a sword named al-Qaḍb. He also possessed Dhu al-Faqār—so called because along its middle were markings like the vertebrae of a backbone—which came into his possession on the Day of Badr and had belonged to al-ʿĀṣ ibn Munabbih, the brother of