Al-Ṭabarānī informed us, saying: Al-Walīd ibn Ḥammād al-Ramlī narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl narrated to us; he said: My father told me, from his father ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, from his father, from his grandfather Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān, who said:

A bow was presented to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and on the Day of Uḥud he handed it to me. I kept shooting with it in front of him until one of its tips snapped. I did not leave my post, standing face-on before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, intercepting the arrows with my own face: whenever an arrow tilted toward his blessed face I would bend my head to shield him. At last an arrow struck and my eyeball dropped onto my cheek. When the ranks dispersed, I picked up my eyeball in my hand and hurried to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. When he saw it lying in my palm, his eyes filled with tears and he said, “O Allah, Qatādah has ransomed the face of Your Prophet with his own face, so make this eye of his the most beautiful of his eyes and the keenest in vision.” Consequently, that eye became the sharper of the two. The isnād is singular, and we have cited another route for it elsewhere.

Ḥammād ibn Zayd said: Al-Muhājir, the freedman of the family of Abū Bakrah, narrated to us, from Abū al-ʿĀliyah, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:

I brought the Messenger of Allah ﷺ a handful of dates and said, “Pray for blessing in them for me.” He gathered them in his hands, invoked blessing over them, and then said, “Take them and put them in a leather pouch (mizwad). Whenever you want to take from it, reach in with your hand and take; do not pour the dates out.” Abū Hurayrah continues: From those dates I later distributed such-and-such wasqs in the cause of Allah; we ourselves ate from them and fed others, and the pouch hung at my waist and never left my side—until ʿUthmān was killed, when the pouch’s strap broke. Al-Tirmidhī recorded this report and said, “It is ḥasan gharīb.”

The same incident is also related in Juzʾ al-Ḥaffār from Abū Hurayrah, where he says: “I took from it fifty wasqs in the cause of Allah. It had been hanging behind my saddle, but during the caliphate of ʿUthmān it fell off and was lost.” That narration, too, comes by an uncommon chain.