and now I see that you possess knowledge of what happens on earth. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah. May my father and mother be ransomed for you—grant me a sign from you so that the people of Mecca will know I have accepted Islam.” The Prophet gave him one, whereupon ʿUmar remarked, “ʿUmayr came here more misguided than a pig, yet he has gone back dearer to me than my own child.

Yūnus related—on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq—that ʿUkkāsha, who fought at Badr until his sword broke in his hand, said: “I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he handed me a thick piece of wood, saying, ‘Fight with this.’ When I took it and shook it, it turned into a sword—long-bladed, sturdy-backed, and gleaming white. I fought with it until Allah granted victory to His Messenger. The sword then remained with me; I carried it in every engagement alongside the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until I was killed in the wars against the apostates, and it was still in my possession. That sword was called al-Qawī (‘the Mighty’).” Ibn Isḥāq records this report without a chain of transmission.

Al-Wāqidī also narrates it: “ʿUmar ibn ʿUthmān al-Jahshī told me, from his father, from his paternal aunt, that ʿUkkāsha ibn Miḥṣan said, ‘My sword broke on the day of Badr, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave me a stick, and suddenly it became a long, white sword, and I fought with it.’”

Al-Wāqidī further said: “Usāmah ibn Zayd al-Laythī told me, from Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, on the authority of a group of narrators, that Salamah ibn Aslam’s sword shattered at Badr, leaving him weaponless. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ placed in his hand a rod cut from a palm spadix and said, ‘Strike with this.’ It at once became a fine sword, and it stayed with him until he was killed on the Day of Abū ʿUbayd’s Bridge.”